Braun & Hogenberg’s Plan of Autun with Nevers Date of Publication_1749 Dutch text to verso

Dutch text to verso

light toning where previously mounted and framed

somewhat rubbed and worn

published in various editions c

Braun & Hogenberg’s Plan of Autun with Nevers Date of Publication_1749 Dutch text to versoThis map includes French town plans after Belleforest on one sheet: Autun in Burgundy and Nevers in Bourgogne. They are 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