Price: £350.00

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

Title: Lugdunum vulgo Lion / Vienna vulgo Vienne de France.
Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598

Two fine engravings of the City of Lyon and the town of Vienne in the Departement of Rhone.

Lyon was founded as a Roman colony in 43 BC by Munatius Plancus, a lieutenant of Caesar, on the site of a Gaulish hill-fort settlement called Lug[o]dunon—from the Celtic sun god Lugus ('Light', cognate to Old Irish Lugh, Modern Irish Lu) and dunon (hill-fort). The name was latinised as Lugdunum; Lug was equated by the Romans to Mercurius. 25 kilometres to the south of Lyon lies the fortress town of Vienne with the main castle on Mont Pipet.

"...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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