Braun & Hogenberg’s Pozzuoli & Baia Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 11 cm Merbat Bay and Kishin Bay

Merbat Bay and Kishin Bay

and the Central Powers are the heroes of the piece

mostly for small format educational works such as ‘A Grammar of General Geography' (1821) and  ‘Butler’s Atlas of Ancient Geography' (1822)

There are further subtle differences between editions

This map covers the Karas region in modern Namibia (then German South West Africa)

Braun & Hogenberg’s Pozzuoli & Baia Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 11 cm Merbat Bay and Kishin BayViews of two towns on the Bay of Naples, Pozzuoli and Baia, are here presented on one sheet. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth century, printed over 45 year period between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first accurate surveys of many towns) and was inspired in part by the scope of Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terarrum which gathered together