Description:

Antique map - FULL TITLE: Die stat Swybuschin in nider Schlesien

A fine birds eye view of Swiebodzin in Poland. The earliest historical records mentioning Swiebodzin (Ger: Schweibus) date from the beginning of the fourteenth century. The town sprang up at the intersection of the old trade routes linking Silesia with Pomerania and a branch of the route running from Lusatia to Wielkopolska. In the beginning, the town was probably a defensive fortification, built on the western banks of Lake Zamecko at a slight elevation. The town wall was ringed by settlements, which were much later incorporated into the city itself.

Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598

‘...Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, stands as one of the greatest monuments of late 16th and early 17th Century European cartography. Published in Cologne, Germany in a series of six volumes between 1572 and 1617/8, and, when finally completed, comprising nearly 550 City views and plans, the Civitates is also one of the most valuable sources for the study of Renaissance urban cartography. ‘ - Roderick M Barron.

Folds as given.

Cartographer: Braun & Hogenberg

Date: 1598

Conditon: GG

Technique: Copper Engraving

Colour: Uncoloured

Width (cms) x Height (cms): 56.0 x 42.0

Ref: WC0736