Antique Original Map of the City of Deventer, the Netherlands, 1588

Antique map Zutphen titled 'Zutphen'. This map depicts the city of Zutphen, Gelderland, The Netherlands. Originates from 'Discrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi'. Artists and Engrav...

Antique map titled 'Provincie Friesland - Gemeente Sloten'. Map of the township of Sloten, Friesland. This map originates from 'Gemeente-Atlas van Nederland' by J. Kuyper. Artists an...

Antique map titled 'Lewardum Occidentalis Frisia Opp'. Plan of the city of Leeuwarden, in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. This map originates from 'Beschryvinghe van alle...

Antique map titled 'Leeuwerden de hooft stadt van Frislant. Leoverdia Metropolis Frisiae (…) 1603.' Very rare plan of Leeuwarden, Friesland, The Netherlands. With several carouches a...

This map of Kampen (the ancient Campensis) is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the famous Series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". The “Civita...

This map of Groninga is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg, and part of the series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". The state of preservation of the artwork...

This map of Noviomagvs is an original etching realized by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the famous series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". The state of preservation of the ...

This is a 16th century original hand-colored copperplate engraved map of Tournai, Belgium, entitled "Tornacum" by Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg, in volume IV of their famous city atlas "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", published in Cologne or Augsberg, Germany in 1575. The map provides a bird's-eye view of the walled city of Tournai, the second oldest city in Belgium. It lies approximately one hour by car southwest of Brussels or from Ghent. The names of thirty of its streets, prominent buildings, churches and squares are listed in a key within a strap-work cartouche in the lower left. These locations are numbered in the key corresponding to their locations on the map. This colorful map of Tournai (Tornacum or Tournay as it was called in the 16th century) includes the title in Latin in a cartouche in the upper center. Three crests are present across the upper map. A man and two woman are standing on a hill in the foreground in the lower right dressed in the style of 16th century upper class residents of the town. This is an English translation of an excerpt of Braun's description of Tornai: “Tornacum or Turnacum is a city in Gallia Belgica, situated on the Schelde in the territory of the Nervii, called Tournai by its French inhabitants, but Dorneck by the Germans. Tournai has always been a large and powerful city, with an abundance of goods and commercial activities and wonderfully resourceful craftsmen, who invent new articles every day, and although some of these go out of use they constantly conceive of other new things, both useful and delightful, so that they have at all times something that provides work and a means of livelihood for the poor." ReferencesVan der Krogt 4, 4435, State 1; Taschen, Braun and Hogenberg...