Price: £350.00

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

Title: Saintes. Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598

Situated in the Charente-Maritime Departement of France, Saintes is located on the banks of the Charente River, between La Rochelle and Bordeaux. Saintes was an important economic and cultural hub in Roman times.
This fine engraving gives a birds-eye view of the town behind its ramparts but also shows the urban development springing up outside the walls.

"...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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