Price: £750.00

• Date: 1598
• Condition: AAA
• Colour: BW
• Size (cm): approx. sheet size 42 cm x 56 cm

Title: Olissippo quae nunc Lisboa ciuitas amplissima Lusitanie, ad Tagum. ... Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598.Engraver: Braun & Hogenberg

A panorama of the City of Lisbon, Capital of Portugal, in the mid-16th Century viewed from the left bank of the Tagus River. Of note are the Castello de Sao Jorge, the citadel fortress on the northern skyline and the 12th Century Sé Patriarchal Cathedral. The multitude of ships on the Tagus reflect Lisbon’s, then, position at the hub of the world's maritime trading empire.

"...Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, stands as one of the greatest monuments of late 16th and early 17th Century European cartography. Published in Cologne, Germany in a series of six volumes between 1572 and 1617/8, and, when finally completed, comprising nearly 550 City views and plans, the Civitates is also one of the most valuable sources for the study of Renaissance urban cartography. " - Roderick M Barron.

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