Price: £350.00

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

Title: Hardales / Cartama. Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598


The upper engraving shows a view of the village of Ardales set at the foot of a large crag and overlooked by an old castle, near the river Túron, on a ridge between the northern foothills of the Serrania de Ronda and the Antequera depression. In the 716 CE Ardales was conquered by the emir Alhur el Tagafi who gave it the name of Ard-Allah (garden or land of god).
The lower engraving depicts the town of Cartama in the province of Malaga. The Phoenicians gave the town its first name, Cartha - meaning hidden city.

"...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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