BRAUN, Georg and Frans HOGENBERG. Beschreibung und Contrafactur der vornembster stat der Welt . Cologne: Godfried von Kempen and P. Buchholz, 1582, 1575-76, 1581, 1590 and [1600]. 5 volumes (of 6), 2° (400 x 275mm). Text in German. 5 engraved architectural titles with title overslips, dedications in Latin. 462 engraved maps, views and town plans on 297 plates, one folding. (Very light offsetting and browning.) Contemporary German calf, covers panelled in gilt with arabesque centrepieces, the central oval on the upper cover lettered Civitates Orbis Terrarum, lower cover with the figure of justice, gilt cornerpieces, remnants of original green silk ties (head and foot of spines neatly restored, extremities rubbed.) Provenance : Count Wolfgang Engelbert IV of Auersperg (signature on upper margin of each title, and contemporary note recording their acquisition into his library in 1655) -- The Princes Auersperg (19th century bookplate of the Fürstlich Auerspergsche Fideicommissbibliotheck zu Laybach) AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COLOURED GERMAN EDITION OF TOWN BOOKS IN A CONTEMPORARY GERMAN BINDING DATED 1613, with a noble provenance. This set was obviously acquired and bound as a complete 5 volume set, before the last volume of the series appeared in 1617-18. The Civitates is the first comprehensive atlas of town plans and is one of the great cartographical achievements of the 16th century. Copies were issued in black and white and coloured. The true contemporary coloured copy of the Civitates has the pigments mixed with white to create an opaque effect, and the present copy is certainly one of the more superior coloured copies. The project was coordinated by Georg Braun assisted by Frans Hogenberg and Hoefnagel. Other contributors to the assembled geographical information included such eminent figures as Pieter Breughel, and Jacob van Deventer. Koeman II B & H 7-12. (5)
BRAUN, Georg and Frans HOGENBERG. Beschreibung und Contrafactur der vornembster stat der Welt . Cologne: Godfried von Kempen and P. Buchholz, 1582, 1575-76, 1581, 1590 and [1600]. 5 volumes (of 6), 2° (400 x 275mm). Text in German. 5 engraved architectural titles with title overslips, dedications in Latin. 462 engraved maps, views and town plans on 297 plates, one folding. (Very light offsetting and browning.) Contemporary German calf, covers panelled in gilt with arabesque centrepieces, the central oval on the upper cover lettered Civitates Orbis Terrarum, lower cover with the figure of justice, gilt cornerpieces, remnants of original green silk ties (head and foot of spines neatly restored, extremities rubbed.) Provenance : Count Wolfgang Engelbert IV of Auersperg (signature on upper margin of each title, and contemporary note recording their acquisition into his library in 1655) -- The Princes Auersperg (19th century bookplate of the Fürstlich Auerspergsche Fideicommissbibliotheck zu Laybach) AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COLOURED GERMAN EDITION OF TOWN BOOKS IN A CONTEMPORARY GERMAN BINDING DATED 1613, with a noble provenance. This set was obviously acquired and bound as a complete 5 volume set, before the last volume of the series appeared in 1617-18. The Civitates is the first comprehensive atlas of town plans and is one of the great cartographical achievements of the 16th century. Copies were issued in black and white and coloured. The true contemporary coloured copy of the Civitates has the pigments mixed with white to create an opaque effect, and the present copy is certainly one of the more superior coloured copies. The project was coordinated by Georg Braun assisted by Frans Hogenberg and Hoefnagel. Other contributors to the assembled geographical information included such eminent figures as Pieter Breughel, and Jacob van Deventer. Koeman II B & H 7-12. (5)
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