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Orleans ; Bovrges.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622
Other Authors: Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590, Hoefnagel, Joris, 1542-1601, Buchholtz, Bertram, active 1592-1603
Format: Map
Language:French
Language Notes:Latin text on verso.
Published: [Cologne] : [Buchholtz?], [1581?]
Subjects:
Orléans (France) > Aerial views > Early works to 1800.
Bourges (France) > Aerial views > Early works to 1800.
Early maps.
Aerial views.
Description
Item Description:Copperplate engraving.
Plate 10 detached from vol. 2 of French edition of Braun and Hogenberg's "Civitates orbis terrarum". A large number of the plates were engraved after the original drawings of Joris Hoefnagel. a professional artist.
Relief shown pictorially.
Panorma of Bourges has numbered key to 15 buildings.
Vertical fold line at center.
The Cushing Library copy is part of the Ronald L. and V. Jane Woellhof Rare Map Collection.
Physical Description:2 views on 1 sheet : hand colored ; 17 x 47 and 19 x 47 cm