Description:

FULL TITLE: Gallipolis

Gallipoli, called Gelibolu in modern Turkish, is a town in northwestern Turkey. The name derives from the Greek Kallipolis, meaning ‘Beautiful City’. It is located on the Gallipoli Peninsula (Gelibolu Yarımadası), with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.

Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598

‘...Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, stands as one of the greatest monuments of late 16th and early 17th Century European cartography. Published in Cologne, Germany in a series of six volumes between 1572 and 1617/8, and, when finally completed, comprising nearly 550 City views and plans, the Civitates is also one of the most valuable sources for the study of Renaissance urban cartography. Ref: Roderick M Barron.

Folds as given.

ConditonGG

CartographerBraun & Hogenberg

Date1598

TechniqueCopper Engraving

ColourUncoloured

Width (cms) x Height (cms)56.0 x 42.0

Ref: WC0753