VENETIA

A beautiful plan of Venice with detailed key and figures of clergymen. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617, and was one of the best-selling works of the late sixteenth-century. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first printed views of many towns). Ortelius, who travelled with the artist Joris Hoefnagel supplied much of the material, which was then engraved by Novellus and Hogenburg. George Braun wrote the text. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and as Koeman says 'of secondary importance') to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary.

In fine condition with good margins. Framed size 75cm x 62cm.