Hierosolyma, Clarissima totius Orientis ciuitas, Iudaee Metropolis.

AUCTION 80 | Thursday, March 28th, 2019 at 1:00 PM
The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 177
BRAUN, GEORG, HOGENBERG, FRANS.

Hierosolyma, Clarissima totius Orientis ciuitas, Iudaee Metropolis.

Hand-colored copperplate double-page twin plans of Jerusalem. 17 x 22 inches (43 x 56 cm).

Frankfurt, 1572 (or later):

Est: $600 - $900
Two Jerusalems are depicted; on the left, the city during the Second Temple Era; on the right, the contemporary city. Lower left, Moses receives the Decalogue at Mount Sinai, surrounded by a prostrating nation. This first appeared in Braun and Hogenberg’s ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum.’