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A launching point for the Crusades, this rectilinear French bastide on the Mediterranean also served as an agricultural market and trading center. The Place de l'Hotel de Ville and Eglise are clearly indicated.
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| Size: 6½" x 7½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $22.50 |
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The historic Dutch city of Alkmaar is portrayed in minute detail in this large and beautifully colored plan by Cornelius Drebbel dating from 1597. The skillful engraving and coloring of this early masterpiece of cartography are exactly reproduced
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| Size: 17¾" x 23¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $35.00 |
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The first phase of Amsterdam's expansion in the 17th century began in 1610 with the development of three ring canals. This engraving by the great Dutch cartographer, Nicholas Visscher, was published about 1670. It shows the start of the second stage of development which extended the ring canal pattern around the medieval city.
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| Size: 19¼" x 22½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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This is the large and finely detailed plan of Amsterdam published about 1710 by the widow of Nich-olas Visscher. It shows the city nearing the completion of its ring canal expansion plan.
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| Size: 17" x 29¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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Amsterdam's planned growth is shown on this engraving by Isaac Tirion from Jan Wagenaar's Amsterdam. Each period of development is indicated by different kinds of hatching, clearly revealing the outward expansion from the original core.
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| Size: 11" x 15¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Founded as a Roman colony in 15 B.C., this southern German city developed as a major medieval urban center. Sebas-tian Munster included this striking plan showing churches and civic buildings enclosed within massive walls and a moat in his Cosmographia Universalis.
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| Size: 10¾" x 13¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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The Circus and the Royal Crescent of John Wood the younger are but two of the major planning projects that transformed this former Roman settlement into the most elegant provincial town of 18th century England.
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| Size: : 17¾" x 20¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Date: 1272 |
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A partial plan of the community, the arcaded fronts of the buildings facing the town center are similar to Monpazier, a more regular bastide.
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| Size: 6" x 7" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $22.50 |
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This fine, large plan shows the capital of the former Yugoslavia after its capture from the Turks by Prince Eugene of Savoy.
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| Size: 22" x 24" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Founded in the 11th century as the capital of medieval Norway, Bergen later became one of the chief Hanseatic cities. This view, published in 1657 by Jan Jansson, was from a reworked Braun and Hogenburg plate engraved in 1588.
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| Size: 12¾" x 18½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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