Price: £300.00

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

Title: Toninga Eiderstadiae / Husum

Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598

The upper engraving depicts the port of Toenning on the Eider river in Schleswig-Holstein.
The lower engraving depicts the town of Husum in Schleswig-Holstein. Like most towns at the North Sea, Husum was ever strongly influenced by storm tides. It is first mentioned 1252. In 1362 a disastrous storm tide flooded the town and carved out the inland harbour. Prior to this date Husum was not situated directly on the coast.
"...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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