Deventer Liberae et Hanseaticae Braun & Hogenberg 1588.
Title: Deventer - Liberae et Hanseaticae urbis Daventriensis delineation. Deventer, Braun & Hogenberg Old map.
Description: Copper engraved birds eye view in watercolor of the town Deventer Holland. Origin: Latin volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Le Civitas Orbis Terrarum. " Latin text Daventria to verso.
Deventer founded around 768 by the English missionary Lebuinus, who built a wooden church on the right bank of River IJssel. The village was burnt by the Vikings in 882 and immediately rebuilt and fortified with an earthen wall. Deventer received city rights in 956. This map represents the old city and surrounding hinterland in the 16th century.
Cartographers: Georg Braun (1541 – 1622) was a topo-geographer. Braun corresponds with map sellers and scientists around the world. From 1572 to 1617 he edited the Civitates orbis terrarum, which contains 546 prospects, bird's-eye views and maps of cities from all around the world. He began work with Frans Hogenberg but was the main publisher of the book. He acquired the plates, hired artists and wrote the texts. He died as an octogenarian in 1622, as the only survivor of the original team to witness the publication of volume VI in 1617.
Frans Hogenberg (1535 - 1590) was a Brabant cartographer. Hogenberg drew maps and made drawings for publishers in the Netherlands, Germany and England. Besides being a draftsman, painter and engraver, he was also a publisher himself.
Like his brother Remigius, Frans probably got lessons from his stepfather, the mapmaker Hendrik Terbruggen. The plates of Le Civitas Orbis Terrarum were engraved by Frans Hogenberg and Simon Novellanus after the original drawings of Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600) who travelled with Ortelius through Europe.
Sheet app.: 22 x 16 inches. 56 x40.5 cm. Image app:. 16.25 x 13.5 inches. 42 x 34.5 cm Condition: Nice map in very good condition, centre fold as published.
