[Turkey]. BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans. - Lot 151

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[Turkey]. BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans. - Lot 151
[Turkey]. BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans. Byzantium, Nunc Constantinopolis. [Cologne, Gottfried von Kempen, 1593]. A black copperplate engraving, 33 x 49 cm (inside the frame), 42 x 54.7 cm (on the sheet). (Tear with a small loss near the center fold). A beautiful bird’s-eye view of the city of Constantinople, published in the *Civitates Orbis Terrarum* by Georg Braun (1541–1622) and Franz Hogenberg (1539–1590). It is adorned with twelve medallions depicting the sultans of the Ottoman Empire. Third state of this view, as described by Van der Krogt. The first state, published between 1572 and 1574, featured eleven portraits, with one of the medallions left blank. The second state fills this last medallion with the portrait of “Amurath Ottomano III. IMP.,” while the third adds the inscription “Cum Privilegio.” Provenance: Samuelian Bookstore. Van der Krogt, IV-2.1, 1912 [Istanbul: 41.2.3].
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