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This is the Berlin of Frederick the Great. It shows the new districts planned in the previous century beyond the restricted, walled perimeter of the original urban nucleus. An unusually extensive legend in French and German identifies all places of interest.
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| Size: 19" x 26½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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In the 1840's and 1850's C. Joseph Meyer published his Hand-Atlas, part of a larger book, serial, and encyclopedia publishing empire he established in 1826. Dozens of city plan-panoramas were produced, all of which were delicately colored steel engravings showing trees, buildings, fields, and lanes in exquisite detail. The plan of Berlin also includes a view of the city in the lower half of the image and insets of significant buildings.
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| Size: 14" x 15½" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $32.50 |
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This is the first printed depiction of one of England's oldest and most important seaports. It appeared in the earliest city atlas to be published, Braun and Hogenberg's Civitatis Orbis Terrarum, issued in six volumes over a period of years. The style of this engraving, combining a plan of the streets with perspectives of all of the buildings, is particularly attractive.
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| Size: 13½" x 17¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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The most beautiful city in Belgium is the subject of this highly detailed bird's-eye view published in Rapin's History of England, copied from a 16th century print.
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| Size: 14" x 18½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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De Wit's Theatrum Ichnographicum Omnium Urbium et Pareci-puorum Oppidorum Belgicarum, published in Amsterdam about 1700, included this finely executed copper engraving of Belgium's capital.
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| Size: 16½" x 21¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Three settlements which were to later join into the city of Budapest are obvious in this view: Obuda and Buda, on the western bank of the Danube, and Pest on the eastern bank. By 1684, all three were under Turkish control.
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| Size: 17¾" x 15¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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The intricate pattern of college buildings and quadrangles of this ancient English university town is beautifully depicted in this engraving from Braun and Hogcnberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
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| Size: 13" x 17½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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From Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum we have reproduced this fine plan-view of Canterbury. The famous cathedral is the most prominent feature shown enclosed with the ancient walls of the city.
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| Size: 13" x 17½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Planned as a new town in 1608, Charleville was perhaps the most outstanding example in France of the application of renaissance design theory. Our excellent reproduction from Zeille's Topographia Galliae, shows the magnificent squares, gates, churches, and palaces of the city, most of which still exist.
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| Size: 11" x 13" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Braun and Hogenberg's depiction of this English city in their Civitates Orbis Terrarum reflects its origin as the rectangular Roman Legion settlement of Deva in the 1st century A.D. The walls, cathedral, and many of the buildings are still in existence.
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| Size: 12¼" x 17¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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