Early map of Palermo In Sicily with fine original colour

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Palermo.
Cologne, 1588-, German text edition. Fine original colour. 330 x 500mm.

A 'map-view' of Palermo, with the major buildings shown in profile, and an extensive key in Italian underneath, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first atlas of printed town plans.

It is a faithful copy of the plan by Prester Horatio Maioc, engraved by Claudio Duchetti in Rome, 1580: even the compass rose cardinals have the Italian abbreviations.

KOEMAN: B&H 4; see NOVACCO: Cartografia Rara, map 95 for the original.
Stock ID : 13597