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Imprint: Berlin,, 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Engraved plate, 20 x 37.5 cms, original hand-colour, heightened with silver, from the folio edition of ‘Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, generale et particulaire’, one of the most sumptuous works on fish ever published.
Stock number:3621.
£ 100.00 ( approx. $US 130.14 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 21.5 x 37.5 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5615.
£ 80.00 ( approx. $US 104.11 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 20.5 x 38 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5631.
£ 350.00 ( approx. $US 455.49 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 19.5 x 38.5 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5630.
£ 350.00 ( approx. $US 455.49 )
Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 21.5 x 38.5 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5613.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Engraved plate, 19.5 x 37 cms, unfolded; colour-printed, finished by hand and heightened with silver, from the folio edition of ‘Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, generale et particulaire’.
Stock number:1525.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Engraved plate, 19.5 x 37 cms, unfolded; colour-printed, finished by hand and heightened with silver, from the folio edition of ‘Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, generale et particulaire’.
Stock number:1527.
£ 200.00 ( approx. $US 260.28 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 20.5 x 38 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5632.
£ 350.00 ( approx. $US 455.49 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 20 x 38 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5634.
£ 350.00 ( approx. $US 455.49 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 21 x 37 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5622.
£ 125.00 ( approx. $US 162.67 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 21 x 39 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5625.
£ 175.00 ( approx. $US 227.74 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 21.5 x 38 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5627.
£ 175.00 ( approx. $US 227.74 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 20 x 37 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5617.
£ 80.00 ( approx. $US 104.11 )
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Imprint: Berlin,, c. 1782-97
Binding: Hardback
Copper engraving, 20.5 x 38.5 cms, original hand-colour, from the folio edition of “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische”.
Stock number:5619.
£ 80.00 ( approx. $US 104.11 )
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Imprint: Augsberg, c. 1725
Copper engraving, 17.8 x 27.7 cms, later hand-colour, blank verso.
Stock number:5069.
£ 125.00 ( approx. $US 162.67 )
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Imprint: Augsberg, c. 1725
Copper engraving, 18 x 27.5 cms, later hand-colour, blank verso.
Stock number:5068.
£ 125.00 ( approx. $US 162.67 )
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Imprint: Antverpiae [Antwerp], ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1607
Binding: Hardback
8vo. pp. [xvi], 394, [vi]. Light toning. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, neatly and appropriately rebacked, corners renewed, recent end-papers.
“An elegant and correct edition” according to Dibdin. Plantin’s son-in-law and successor, Jan Moretus, maintained the high standards of the press., Dibdin I, 352.
Stock number:6005.
£ 750.00 ( approx. $US 976.05 )
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Imprint: Milan, Pietro & Giuseppe Vallardi, 1822
Engraved folding map, 77 x 56.5 cms, hand-coloured, dissected into 20 sheets and laid on linen as issued, without slipcase.
Stock number:4848.
£ 150.00 ( approx. $US 195.21 )
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Imprint: London:, 1752
Copper engraving, 33.3 x 23.5 cms, later hand-colour, blank verso.
Stock number:6136.
£ 100.00 ( approx. $US 130.14 )
Imprint: London:, 1747
Copper engraving, 36 x 43 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso.
Stock number:4602.
£ 125.00 ( approx. $US 162.67 )
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Imprint: London:, 1752
Copper engraving, 36 x 43 cms, recent hand colour, blank verso.
Stock number:6130.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: London:, 1752
Copper engraving, 36.5 x 45 cms, recent hand-colour, closed centrefold split, blank verso. Insets of Toulon and Brest.
Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1714-67) was an important English cartographer, engraver to both George II and Louis XV. He produced some of the most decorative eighteenth century English maps. In spite of his royal appointments he died in poverty.
Stock number:6253.
£ 200.00 ( approx. $US 260.28 )
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Imprint: London,, 1731
Copper engraving, 33.5 x 45 cms, engraved by Sutton Nicholls, black and white as issued, title on swallow tailed banderole, blank verso. From “London Described”. Bowles gave up his Stocks Market address, given in the imprint, circa 1731.
Marlborough House was completed in 1711 for the famouly strong-willed and highly influential Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, confidante of Queen Anne and wife of John Churchill the first Duke of Marlborough, victor of Blenheim. Acquired by the Crown in the nineteenth century it was the residence of Edward VII while Prince of Wales, and since 1953 it has been used by the Commonwealth Secretariat., Adams 29/14
Stock number:5898.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
Imprint: London: Francis West, c. 1840
Copper engraving, 26.5 x 41.5 cms,black and white as issued. From West’s retrospective collection of views which, like the album of Laurie’s Views issued at a similar date, is a valuable record of the London views offered by the principal printsellers of the previous century.
Adams 193
Stock number:4447.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: London, R. Wilkinson, c. 1810
Copper engraving, 21 x 25 cms, black and white as issued, inlaid in the nineteenth-century, blank verso.
Probably from the series of plates published in the first decade of nineteenth-century by Bowles’s successor Robert Wilkinson. The imprint is deliberately anachronistic., Adams 105
Stock number:4421.
£ 100.00 ( approx. $US 130.14 )
Imprint: London, Sold by John Bowles, Print and Map Seller over against Stocks Market,, c. 1730
Copper engraving, 34 x 45.5 cms, engraved by Sutton Nicholls, black and white as issued, crease bottom right. Title on swallow tailed banderole. This print was issued un London Described (c.1731) but was probably in circulation earlier; Bowles relinquished the Stocks Market address prior to 1731. The river facade and flanking blocks of the Hospital are shown complete.
Adams 29
Stock number:4444.
£ 350.00 ( approx. $US 455.49 )
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Imprint: London,, 1796
Aquatint, 33 x 55.5 cms, engraved by Joseph Stadler after Joseph Farington, black and white, blank verso, folded for inclusion in a smaller work, 2.5 cm tear closed top left. Boydell, by the 1790’s a prosperous publisher and printseller, commissioned the landscape artist Joseph Farington to to preprare paintings for a History of the River Thames which was in part a celebration of Boydell’s election as Lord Mayor. The work was popular and Adams notes that versions of the plates are found on paper watermarked twenty years later. Tooley suggests a reissue of 1831-4 and the paper of our example has a watermark dated 1828.
Adams 75
Stock number:4430.
£ 350.00 ( approx. $US 455.49 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 32.5 x 39.5 cms. Black and white as issued, numbered in an old hand top-right. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4267.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
34.5 x 42.5 cms. Two plans on one sheet. Original colour, minor offsetting. Slight marginal soiling. German text to verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:3531.
£ 200.00 ( approx. $US 260.28 )
Imprint: Cologne, c. 1575
Copper engraving, 37 x 38 cms, recent hand-colour, a couple of trivial spots, Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary., Koeman B&H 2
Stock number:6013.
£ 450.00 ( approx. $US 585.63 )
Imprint: Cologne, c. 1572
Copper engraving, 32.3 x 47 cms, recent hand-colour, closed split at foot of centrefold, Latin text to verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary., Koeman B&H 1
Stock number:6472.
£ 500.00 ( approx. $US 650.70 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 34 x 48 cms. Black and white as issued, numbered in an old hand top-right. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4265.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
Copper engraving, 33.5 x 47.5 cms, four views on one sheet, original hand-colour heightened in gold, some oxidisation and offsetting, closed centrefold split, Latin text on verso.
The sheet is not a randon grouping of places: it reads as a voyage around Africa to the East. The principal view on this sheet is of the 'very famous' emporium or market of Calecut, near Madras, which was one of the principal centres of Portugese influence in sixteenth-century India (especially before the capture of Goa), at a time when the Portugese made a fortune from trade with the East. The British only began to make their presence felt in the following century, and Calecut should not be confused with Calcutta which was founded by the East India Company in 1686, about a century after this map was printed. The print is very decorative with the colonial Portugese town rising out of a jungle of palm trees. An elephant with a mahout is watching while boats are constructed on the beach, and Asian and European vessels just offshore are shown in some detail. Beneath the view of Calecut are smaller views of Ormuz at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, Canonor in India, and the Portuguese fortress of El Mina in West Africa. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling illustrated works of the late sixteenth-century, prepared and published over a 45 year period between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and, according to Koeman ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:5778.
£ 350.00 ( approx. $US 455.49 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
33 x 48 cms. Two plans on one sheet. Original colour, minor offsetting. Slight marginal soiling. German text to verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:3532.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 33.5 x 46 cms. Black and white as issued, numbered in an old hand top-right. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4264.
£ 200.00 ( approx. $US 260.28 )
Imprint: Cologne, c. 1588
Copper engraving, 33 x 48.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text to verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary., Koeman B&H 4
Stock number:6015.
£ 500.00 ( approx. $US 650.70 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1572
Copper engraving, 34 x 48.5 cms. recent hand-colour, numbered in an old hand in the margin, top right, Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary., Koeman B&H 1
Stock number:6011.
£ 650.00 ( approx. $US 845.91 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 32.5 x 44 cms. Black and white as issued, numbered in an old hand top-right. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4253.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
31.5 x 48.5 cms. Two views on one sheet. Original colour. A couple of trivial spots and stains. German text to verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:3512.
£ 300.00 ( approx. $US 390.42 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
34 x 48.5 cms. Original colour. Tiny hole (0.2 cm dia.) bottom right. A couple of trivial spots and stains. German text to verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:3514.
£ 300.00 ( approx. $US 390.42 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 29.5 x 49 cms. Black and white as issued. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4258.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 33.5 x 44 cms. Black and white as issued. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4262.
£ 250.00 ( approx. $US 325.35 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 32.5 x 43.5 cms. Black and white as issued. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4260.
£ 200.00 ( approx. $US 260.28 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
Copper engraving, 34.5 x 49 cms. Two views on one sheet, fine original colour, a couple of trivial spots and stains, small wormhole neatly repaired at the very foot of the lower margin. German text to verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:5010.
£ 400.00 ( approx. $US 520.56 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
37 x 47.5 cms. Four views on one sheet, fine original colour, a couple of trivial spots and stains. German text to verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:3736.
£ 600.00 ( approx. $US 780.84 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
Copper engraving, platemark 33.5 x 45.5 cms, fine original hand-colour, German text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary. One of the remarkable things about the Civitates is that the town views and plans were taken from eye-witness observation rather than improvised in the manner of earlier geographical works - one thinks of the many spurious 'views' in the famous Nuremberg Chronicles for example - and the little group walking down the steep path in the foreground is often taken to be a form of self portrait, showing Hoefnagel and Ortelius themselves, whose visit to Tivoli in 1578 is recored in the legend, bottom left. The inset shows the impressive waterfall just outside the town.
Stock number:3759.
£ 400.00 ( approx. $US 520.56 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1580
Copper engraved title page from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - the first systematic city atlas; 36.5 x 22.5 cms, black and white as issued, right hand margin renewed, some soiling, Latin text on verso.
Stock number:5077.
£ 125.00 ( approx. $US 162.67 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 39.5 x 47.5 cms. Black and white as issued, numbered in an old hand top-right, lightly browned. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4266.
£ 200.00 ( approx. $US 260.28 )
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Imprint: Cologne, c. 1590
Copper engraving, 34.5 x 48 cms. Black and white as issued. Latin text on verso.
The Civitates Orbis Terrarum - Cities of the whole World - was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Braun wrote the text and Ortelius - who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says ‘of secondary importance’) to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.
Stock number:4259.
£ 200.00 ( approx. $US 260.28 )
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Imprint: London, 1889
Wood engraving, image 40 x 111 cms, with key in lower margin, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
H.W. Brewer specialized in antiquarian reconstructions for publications such as, The Builder
Stock number:5969.
£ 1250.00 ( approx. $US 1626.75 )
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