Price: £750.00

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

Title: Sevilla. Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598. Engraver: Braun & Hogenberg

The City was supposedly founded by Julius Caesar who named it Iulia Romula Hispalis: Iulia after himself, Romula in honour of Rome and Hispalis because many of the buildings had wooden piles driven into the ground as foundations.
The engravinf shows a beautifully executed panoramic view of the fortified 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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