[MAP--GHENT]
[BRAUN, GEORG and HOGENBERG, FRANS]. Gandauum Amplissima Flandriae Urbs... [Cologne: Bertram Buchholtz, 1572]. From Civitatis Orbis Terrarum, engraved map, hand colored, central fold, framed. 13 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches (33 x 48 cm) to the neatline. Two repaired tears, at head of sheet along central fold and in bottom right quadrant, not examined out of frame.

A bird's eye view map of Ghent from Braun and Hogenberg's Civitatis Orbis Terrarum, the greatest early town atlas, a book with no precedents, and an invaluable resource for understanding urban life in the early modern period. Provenance: Martayan Lan, New York, 2019.