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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1580	Braun & Hogenberg	Cologne	Venetia	$4,250	Picture

An engraved map, with full color wash

Size: 16-1/4 inches X 21 inches

Map Type: City

This is a superior copy, with vivid colors.

This panoramic view of the city of Venice, Italy at a atime when it was a leading city in trade thanks to its geographical position.

St Mark's square with the cathedral can easily be identified. Ships, boats and Venetian gondolas fill the harbour.

Key to the city appears in two columns across the bottom in Italian.

Taken from Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first complete set of of birds eye "town views" assembled into a 6 volume atlas.

References: Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Volume 1 Page 185, Braun, Georg, Scott, Valerie, Map Collector Publications, Tring, Hertz, England, 1999