Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Atlas - City views; Braun & Hogenberg - Beschreibung und Contrafactur der vornembster Stät der Welt - 1561-1580

Fantastic and valuable facsimile city views: description and counterfacture of the most important cities in the world.
This exclusive edition contains the most beautiful views of topography by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. The Coron publishing house has published this masterpiece of cartography and city drawing, dating from 1574.
It is the most comprehensive and best-known city book.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
The new price was 1,798 euros.
Contents: 8 pages introduction with colored title page; 56 double-page colored city views; 56 sheets of city descriptions (facsimile text) plus another 16 pages of text.
List of city views in detail:
1 London
2 Oxford-Windsor
3 Lisbon
4 Granada
5 Seville
6 Strasbourg
7 Paris
8 Luxembourg
9 Brussels
10 Coat of arms of Hainaut
11 Maastricht
12 Amsterdam
13 Map of Denmark
14 Copenhagen
15 Moscow
16 Warsaw
17 Kiel
18 Wittenberg-Frankfurt/O.
-Wismar-Rostock
19 Lübeck-Hamburg
20 Luneburg
21 Bremen
22 Magdeburg
23 Lippstadt-Dortmund
24 Marburg-Kassel
25 Cologne
26 Dresden-Leipzig
27 Meissen
28 Weimar-Erfurt-Jena-Gotha-Fulda
29 Trier-Koblenz-Rothenburg
30 Frankfurt am Main
31 Mainz-Würzburg-Sitten
32 Bamberg
33 Prague
34 Nuremberg
35 Swabian Hall
36 Regensburg
37 Passau
38 Augsburg
39 Munich
40 Kempten
41 Swiss cantonal cities
42 Zurich
43 Vienna
44 Salzburg
45 Innsbruck
46 Budapest
47 Brixen-Lauingen
48 Venice
49 Rome
50 Heraklion (Crete) -Corfu
51 Istanbul
52 Damascus
53 Jerusalem
54 Alexandria
55 Algiers
56 Kalikut-Ormus-Canonor-Mina
The cover is made of vegetable-tanned, fine full-grain cowhide, with 6 false bindings. The book block has a fine, shiny, three-sided gold edge. Folio format approx. 43 x 30 cm. Heavy and valuable handmade paper. Coron at Kindler in Berlin 1999.
The book was purchased as an investment and is no longer available for purchase.
It comes to you in the publisher's original packaging and is as good as new.