Price: £500.00

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

Title: Amoenissimus castri Granatensis, vulgo Alhambre dicti, ab oriente prospectus. Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598


A finely engraved view of the citadel of the Alhambra with the City of Granada below it. The lower pictures show the main gate to the City, a view of the Sierra Nevada, and an engraving of a Moorish spring.
"...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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