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| Cartograph: |
Braun & Hogenberg |
| Title: |
Mons. - Montes, Hannoniae Metropolis. / Arras. - Atrebatum, Episcopalis et Metropolitica Artesiae Civitas. |
| Year: |
Cologne, circa 1580 |
| Plate Size: |
31.3 x 48.5 cm (12.3 x 19.1 inches) |
| Reference: |
Fauser 9039 & 692 |
| Two cityviews on one sheet: Bergen / Mons in Hainaut, Belgium and Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, North of France engraved and published by Braun & Hogenberg. Beautiful original colour. German text on verso. From a German edition of "Civitates orbis terrarum". |
| Some overall browning, minor creases in Bergen view around centrefold. Overall fine condition and good impression. |
| About the Cartograph/ Printer: Georg Braun, born 1542 and Frans Hogenberg, born around 1536, German publishers and engravers, have issued the famous six volume town book "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" between 1572 and 1618. The volumes originally published in Latin, follow by German and French translations. The plates passed to Jan Janssonius who reissued the town books in 1657 while removing the costume figures on the plates. Braun died in 1622, Hogenberg in 1588. |
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