Braun, Georg and Frans Hogenberg
CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM. COLOGNE: BERTRAM BUCHHOLTZ, [1597, 1599, 1599]
Braun, Georg and Frans Hogenberg
3 volumes (of 6, lacking volumes I, V & VI), folio (278 x 402mm), Latin text, each volume with engraved allegorical title, 170 (of 177) double-page engraved plans and views, contemporary hand-colour, CONTEMPORARY "CIVITATES" CALF (see footnote), gilt border enclosing title on upper cover, allegorical representation on lower cover, '1604' stamped on spines, map of Jerusalem loosely inserted and possibly supplied from another copy, map of Leodium bound instead of Lovanium in volume 3, without blanks, some staining and marginal soiling, occasional repairs to verso, a few short tears mostly in margins, extremities rubbed, some loss to spines
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Van der Krogt 41:1.2-4
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CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM. COLOGNE: BERTRAM BUCHHOLTZ, [1597, 1599, 1599]
Braun, Georg and Frans Hogenberg
3 volumes (of 6, lacking volumes I, V & VI), folio (278 x 402mm), Latin text, each volume with engraved allegorical title, 170 (of 177) double-page engraved plans and views, contemporary hand-colour, CONTEMPORARY "CIVITATES" CALF (see footnote), gilt border enclosing title on upper cover, allegorical representation on lower cover, '1604' stamped on spines, map of Jerusalem loosely inserted and possibly supplied from another copy, map of Leodium bound instead of Lovanium in volume 3, without blanks, some staining and marginal soiling, occasional repairs to verso, a few short tears mostly in margins, extremities rubbed, some loss to spines
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Van der Krogt 41:1.2-4
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