De praecipuis, totius uniuersi urbibus, liber secundus
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Type of record: Book
Title: De praecipuis, totius uniuersi urbibus, liber secundus
Other titles: Civitates orbis terrarum
Classmark: BC For C16 q/BRA
Creator(s): Braun, Georg (1622)
Additional creator(s): Hogenberg, Franz (1590) (Other); Novellanus, Simon (fl. 1560-1590) (Other)
Related people: Hogenberg, Franz; Novellanus, Simon
Publisher: praestant apud auctores, et Antuerpiae : apud Philippum Gallaeum
Publication city: Coloniae
Date(s): [1575?]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [10 leaves] 59 double plans [6 leaves]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298036
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003825969705181
Description
The second volume of a 6-volume work, known as 'Civitates orbis terrarum', all except the sixth volume, by Georg Braun assisted by Franz Hogenberg, who was mainly responsible for the engravings; in this volume, Simon Novellanus [S. van der Noe] was also involved as engraver.
Engraved part-title-page, but no general title-page.
Ad lectorem dated 1575.
Imprint from colophon; imprimatur on verso of part-title-page states: 'Datum Bruxellae, XXII. Novem. M.D.LXXIII'.
Dedication p,[3], signed 'Georgius Bruin, Simon Novellanus, Franciscus Hogenbergius'.
59 numbered, double-page engravings most with accompanying descriptive text on outer pages.
Indexed in: Adams B2713.
Additional description
Part-title-page and engravings hand-coloured. General title of work blind-stamped on the front and back of the contemporary binding. Missing engravings: No. 16 (Vesontis), and no.43. Smudged inscription on margin of 35(1) recto
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