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Description and contrafactur of the foremost city in the world
This Coron Exclusive Edition contains the most beautiful views of the topography by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg.
The "Description and Cobtrafactur of the foremost city in the world" or, as the original Latin title reads "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", is the best known and most comprehensive city book of the late 16th century. The new price was 1,798 euros.
Contents: 8-page introduction with colored title page; 56 full-page colored city views; 56 sheets of city descriptions (facsimile text) plus another 16 pages of text.
List of city views in detail:
1London
2 Oxford-Windsor
3 Lisbon
4 Granada
5 Seville
6 Strasbourg
7Paris
8 Luxembourg
9 Brussels
10 coat of arms Hainaut
11 Maastricht
12Amsterdam
13 Map of Denmark
14 Copenhagen
15 Moscow
16 Warsaw
17 keel
18 Wittenberg-Frankfurt/O.-Wismar-Rostock
19 Lübeck-Hamburg
20 Lueneburg
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/M.
31 Mainz-Würzburg customs
32 Bamberg
33 Prague
34 Nuremberg
35 Swabian Hall
36 Regensburg
37 Passau
38 Augsburg
39 Munich
40 Kempten
41 Swiss canton 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 Calicut-Ormus-Canonor-Mina
The cover is made of vegetable-tanned, fine full-grain leather with 6 false frets. The book block has a finely gleaming gold edge on three sides. Folio - format approx. 43 x 30 cm. Heavy and valuable handmade paper. Coron at Kindler Verlag, Berlin 2006.
The book was purchased as an investment and is in very good condition. 67464229
