BRAUN HOGENBERG CIVITATES ORBIS T. JERUSALEM 1572 MAP JUDAICA ENGRAVING JUDAIC holy land Start Price USD 1,500.00 Current Price USD 1,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, October 11, 2008 End Time Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Location Póvoa de Santa Iria, póvoa de santa iria See more about 'BRAUN HOGENBERG CIVITATES ORBIS T. JERUSALEM 1572 MAP' Description HIEROSOLYMA URBS SANCTA, IUDEAE TOTIVSQUE ORIENTIS LONGE CLASRISSIMA, QUA AMPLITUDINE AC MAGNIFIECENTIA HOC NOSTRO AEVO CONSPICUA EST   DATE: CIRCA 1572 ORIGINAL BRAUN AND HOGENBERG XVIth CENTURY ENGRAVING PAPER MARGINS: 54 CM BY 40,5 CM IMAGE SIZE: 47,5 CM BY 34,5 CM ORIGINAL AND ONE OF THE RAREST VIEWS FROM THIS COLLECTION UNCOLOURED ESTIMATE: 9000 USD Beautiful idealised plan of Jerusalem. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617, and was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Ortelius, who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. George Braun wrote the text. 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.   Place a Bid!