Braun & Hogenberg’s Plan of Valenciennes Crimean War

Braun & Hogenberg’s Plan of Valenciennes Crimean WarThis plan of Valenciennes in northern France is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth century, printed over 45 year period between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first accurate surveys of many towns) and was inspired in part by the scope of Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terarrum which gathered together the best available geographical sources.

and further illustrates the disposition of the besieging forces

Sir Thomas-Masterman Hardy

34 x 55 cm

on a folio leaf 37 x 29 cm

A Version of the Closing Books of Homer’s Odyssey

engraved by Régnier after a British Admiralty chart of 1871

sometime rebacked preserving original spine

Ukraine and parts of Poland

Eiusdem Henr

modern Romania and Bulgaria on the Black Sea was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press

The volumes are divided thematically: Carmina de venatione

and includes insets of Mauritius