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Slovakia > Košice, Kassa, Cassovia
"Cassovia Superoris Hungariae Civitas
Primaria."
General view of Košice in Eastern Slovakia,
near the border with Hungary, situated on the
river Hornád.
Coloured copper engraving after a priliminary
drawing by Georg Hoefnagel (1542-1600), by Braun
& Hogenberg from 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum',
Cologne 1617, vol. VI, 30,5 x 53,6 cm.
sold
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Georg Braun (1541 – 1622) & Frans Hogenberg
(1535 – 1590)
Georg Braun (1541 - 1622). Publisher and
geographer. Frans Hogenberg (1535 - 1590). Engraver
and publisher. Edited together the first atlas
with views and town plans of the world, 'Civitates
Orbis Terrarum', which was published in 6 volumes
in Cologne from 1572 (till 1618).
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