Lot 310
Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg. Bergen. Handcolored bird's-eye view of Bergen (Cologne, 1580 or later). "Hieronymus Scholeus sua manu descripsit." Title in small baroque cartouche, coats of arms to left and right. Key to locations at upper left. Image: 12 5/8 x 18½", matted and framed to an overall size of 23 x 29". Not examined out of frame. After 1618 Jan Jansson aquired the plates for Civitates orbis terrarum and published an eight-volume edition. The maps were re-issued a number of times in various forms and were published for the last time in 1750.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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