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    Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 550 Civitates orbis terrarum (description and high-res scans) Civitates orbis terrarum - Braun and Hogenberg Georg Braun...
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    Jacob's father Joris had provided designs for the fifth volume of Civitates orbis terrarum, which consisted of prints of bird's-eye views and maps of cities...
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    Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum (1570) and Braun's Civitates orbis terrarum (Cologne, 1572–1618). The Civitates orbis terrarum was with its six volumes...
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    few which have survived were Duarte Pacheco Pereira's Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis (c. 1509) and João de Lisboa's Livro da Marinharia (c. 1514). Relative to...
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    shipbuilding, net fishing, dinghy traffic and a rugged, sparsely populated interior (Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572)...
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  • shipbuilding, net fishing, dinghy traffic and a rugged, sparsely populated interior (Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572)....
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    Image of Kozhikode, India from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates Orbis terrarum, 1572...
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    A 1572 depiction of the city of Kilwa from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum....
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    Mela; Gronovius; Schott; Núñez de Guzmán (1748). Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri III cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi...
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    Kannur drawn in 1572, from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, Volume I Kannur has an elevation of 1.02 metres or 3.3 feet along...
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    Image of Calicut, India from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572....
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  • Hogenberg died in Cologne. Theatrum orbis terrarum - collaboration with Abraham Ortelius, 1565 Civitates Orbis Terrarum - collaboration with his son Abraham...
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    Edinburgh in the 16th century, as depicted in Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum....
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    portrait of Kannur, the largest city of North Malabar, drawn in 1572, from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, Volume I...
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    "Cassovia: Superioris Hungariae Civitas Primaria", the prospect from Civitates orbis terrarum. Cassovia (Slovak: Košice, German: Kaschau, Hungarian: Kassa),...
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    "Cassovia: Superioris Hungariae Civitas Primaria", the prospect from Civitates orbis terrarum. Cassovia (German: Kaschau, Hungarian: Kassa, Slovak: Košice),...
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    Antiquities", vol. vii). The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum inspired a six-volume work titled Civitates orbis terrarum, edited by Georg Braun and illustrated...
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    be recognized in the "panorama of Odense" in the medieval tome Civitates Orbis Terrarum from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. The panorama appears as plate...
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    the map of London included in Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, published in Cologne and Amsterdam in 1572, although this is on...
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    Marburg from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572...
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    Algiers by Antonio Salamanca, circa 1540, published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum...
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    16th-century view of the city, as depicted in Georg Braun's Civitates orbis terrarum...
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    Cityscape of Lüneburg in the 16th-century atlas Civitates Orbis Terrarum, published in its first volume, in 1572...
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    evolución histórica de la ciudad de Écija (1240-1410)" (PDF). Historias del Orbis Terrarum (9): 22–40. ISSN 0718-7246. Fernández Valle, María de los Ángeles (2009–2010)...
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    Brunswick in the 16th century, from the Civitates orbis terrarum by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg...
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    Toledo as depicted in the Civitates orbis terrarum (1572)...
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    reduced map of London included in Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, published in Cologne and Amsterdam in 1572. These two derivative...
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    summary about the Mountaineer tribes, living in what would be called civitates Barbariae, Geographica V ch.2: There are four nations of mountaineers...
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    City of Calicut, India, c.1572 (from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum)...
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    Map of Marseille in 1575, with Notre-Dame de la Garde fort in the foreground. Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, II-12...
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