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Lot 135

BRAUN (GEORG) and FRANZ HOGENBERG
Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis, [Cologne, after 1574]

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BRAUN (GEORG) and FRANZ HOGENBERG

Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis, hand-coloured engraved map, title cartouche with border of roses and swags, Tudor Royal and City arms, Latin text on verso, some browning and a little light staining, closed tear in lower margin, top edges reinforced on verso [Darlington & Howgego, no. 2; Glanville pl. 3; Koeman 2433], platemark 332 x 485mm., with margins 405 x 525mm., [Cologne, after 1574]

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'THE BEST KNOWN AND MOST IMPORTANT OF THE SURVIVING EARLY MAP-VIEWS OF LONDON' (Darlington & Howgego p.10). Published in Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, the first atlas of town plans and views, the view derives from a 15-sheet city plan of 1550, of which only three plates and no printed copies have survived, making this the first extant plan of London. The present example is from the second state of the plate, issued two years after the first, with the spelling 'West Muster' and the addition of the Royal Exchange. The fact that it must have been drawn some 15 years earlier is confirmed by the inclusion of the spire of St Paul's, which was destroyed by lightning in 1561 and not replaced.

Provenance: Old ink inscription in Ottoman Turkish ("Ingeltra'nin takhtgah olan shahr Londra yakhud London nam-i azim shehridir" - "The capital city of England, Londra, or London is the name of this great city") in lower margin.

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