Brightstowe [map].

Author
Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Cologne : Braun & Hogenberg, 1581]
Description
  • Not drawn to scale. (W 2°37ʹ38ʺ--W 2°34ʹ51ʺ/N 51°27ʹ06ʺ--N 51°26ʹ24ʺ).
  • 1 map ; 34 x 43 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Donor
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Notes
  • Bird's-eye view of Bristol, England. Relief shown pictorially.
  • Includes descriptive text in cartouche: Brightstowe, vulgo; quondam venta, flore[n]tissimum Angliae emporium.
  • Includes index of churches.
  • German text on verso with caption title: Bristowe; p. 2.
  • From: Beschreibung und Contrafactur der Vornembster Stät der Welt / Georgius Braun und Franciscus Hohenberg. Zu Cölln : [T. Graminaeus ... et al.], 1572-1618.
Source acquisition
Historic Maps copy is gift of Robert A. McCabe, Princeton class of 1956.
References
Koeman, C. Atlantes neerlandici (New ed.) 651 (state 1)
Other title(s)
Brightstowe, vulgo, quondam venta, flore[n]tissimum Angliae emporium
OCLC
813904619
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