Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622

Title:

Civitates orbis terrarum, [map] 'The towns of the world,' 1572-1618 [by] Braun & Hogenberg. With an introd. by R. A. Skelton.

Published / Created:

Cleveland : World Pub. Co., 1966 [c1965]

Physical Description:

6 pts. in 3 v. maps, plates. 45 cm.

Holdings:

Reference Library
Folio F G 8

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Maps & Atlas (printed)

Notes:

Six col. plates in pocket of v. 1.

"Facsimile edition ... of the six volumes ... apparently printed by Peter von Brachel about the years 1618-23."

Bibliography: v. 1, p. xxii-xxiii.

Subject Terms:

Cities and towns. | Cities and towns -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | Cities and towns, Medieval. | Early maps -- Facsimiles.

Contributors:

Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539–1590. | Skelton, R. A. (Raleigh Ashlin), 1906–1970.