BRACHEL, PETER VON. Hierosolyma Urbs Sancta, Iudeae, Totiusque Orientis...
BRACHEL, PETER VON.
Hierosolyma Urbs Sancta, Iudeae, Totiusque Orientis Longe Clarissima.
Double-page hand-colored copperplate view of Jerusalem. Top verse from Book of Ezekiel: "This is Jerusalem! I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her."
14 x 17.5 inches (35.5 x 44.5 cm). Finely framed.
Cologne, 1575:
Fine panoramic plan-view of the city of Jerusalem. With forty-eight important religious sites and events numbered and keyed to Latin text panel below. Two pages of text concerning the city by Georg Braun on verso. From the first atlas of world cities: Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Vol. II, p. 54) with plates primarily by the Flemish engraver Frans Hogenberg.
Fine panoramic plan-view of the city of Jerusalem. With forty-eight important religious sites and events numbered and keyed to Latin text panel below. Two pages of text concerning the city by Georg Braun on verso. From the first atlas of world cities: Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Vol. II, p. 54) with plates primarily by the Flemish engraver Frans Hogenberg.
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BRACHEL, PETER VON.
Hierosolyma Urbs Sancta, Iudeae, Totiusque Orientis Longe Clarissima.
Double-page hand-colored copperplate view of Jerusalem. Top verse from Book of Ezekiel: "This is Jerusalem! I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her."
14 x 17.5 inches (35.5 x 44.5 cm). Finely framed.
Cologne, 1575:
Fine panoramic plan-view of the city of Jerusalem. With forty-eight important religious sites and events numbered and keyed to Latin text panel below. Two pages of text concerning the city by Georg Braun on verso. From the first atlas of world cities: Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Vol. II, p. 54) with plates primarily by the Flemish engraver Frans Hogenberg.
Fine panoramic plan-view of the city of Jerusalem. With forty-eight important religious sites and events numbered and keyed to Latin text panel below. Two pages of text concerning the city by Georg Braun on verso. From the first atlas of world cities: Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Vol. II, p. 54) with plates primarily by the Flemish engraver Frans Hogenberg.