“Jerusalem, et suburbia eius sicut tempore Christi floruit …” Two double-page sheets, not joined; engraved plan.

From: Georg Braun and Frans Hogenburg “Civiates Orbis Terrarum.” Cologne, 1572. Vol. I, no. 52 (i.e. 53). The maps are drawn after Laicstain-De Jode’s original but without recording place-names. Two plans of Jerusalem on one sheet. On the left half is an imaginary topographic description of the ancient city at the time of Jesus. The right half features a topographical description of the ‘modern’ city - “Noua urbis Hierosolymitanae descriptio…” Latin text on verso: “Ieroslyma.”