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Atlas - world] - BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans - Théâtre des cités du monde. Premier Volume (- Second volume) . Cologne, s.n., c. 1575-c. 1587, folio, orig. calf (rubbed, def. corners), gilt centerpc. on covers, spine on 6 raised bands (splitting joints, heavily rubbed, def. at head & tail), 2 parts in 1 vol., engr. title (lower and left edge underlaid, slip of paper of upper margin torn off, frayed right edge, +/- 10 cm tear, sm. ink stain), [6] ff.-51 pls-[12] ff., [4] ff.-55 pls-[4] ff. (sm. marg. wormtrack, a few minor splitting c'folds, sl. soiled margins, some). Good copy.
French trsl. of the "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", by Georg Braun, canon of Cologne Cathedral, who gathered information from travellers, geographers and scholars throughout Europe and beyond. Franz Hogenberg a friend and colleague of Mercator and Ortelius, engraved the maps, and was later succeeded by his son Abraham. It represents by 1617 and after several editions, a most remarkable set of over 500 city plans and town views. The present copy gathers 2 t.-p. (title pasted on in the centre of the nice engraving), 203 maps and views on 107 plates (Part I : 52 (of 59) and Part II: 55 (of 59)) : Spain (10), Italy (10), Germany (27), Netherlands (14), Belgium (6), France (14), etc. Present are i.a. views of Lübeck, Bilbao, Huy, Maastricht, Innsbrück, Ieper, Nürnberg, Danzig, Granada, Barcelona, Mombassa, Calcutta etc. and maps of Aken, Paris, London, Lyon, Cologne, Augsburg, Rome, Naples, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Caïro, Mexico, Middelburg, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Moscou, Damascus, etc. Not present are: Sevilla, Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp, 's Hertogenbosch, Frankfurt, Venice, Santander, Orléans, Basel and Algiers. This world's first systematic city atlas was one of the most important publications ever undertaken and among the greatest achievements in the history of cartography. Ref. Koeman II : B & H 13 - 14.