Catana Urbs Siciliae Clarissima Patria Scte. Agathae Virginis et Mart. - Antique map

Author: Braun, Georg - Hogenberg, Franz

Publisher: Gottfried von Kempen

Published: Cologne

Publishing year: 1596

"Catana Urbs Siciliae Clarissima Patria Scte. Agathae Virginis et Mart.". Orig. copper-engraving from G. Braun's and F. Hogenberg's "Civitates Orbis Terarrum". Published in Cologne by Gottfried von Kempen, 1596-97. Orig. old colouring. With title above the map, 2 coats-of-arms, Etna volcano ("Famosus Mons Aetna") in the background, 6 ships in the foreground and a cartouche with explanatory notes (1.-45.). 37:49,5 cm (14 1/2 x 19 1/2 inch.).

Koeman IV, map 825, ed. 41:1-3 (1596/97 B&H 5). - A birds eye view of the Sicilian port and city of Catania.

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