Vrbivm praecipvarvm totivs mvndi
Publisher: Peter von Brachel
Published: 1617
Place of publication: Cologne
Language: lat
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Renaissance Cities and towns; Maps; Aerial views
Other titles: Theatrum quartum urbium.
Work titles: Civitates orbis terrarum. Bk. 4
Notes: This edition is dedicated to William, Elector of Bavaria; an earlier edition, by Bertram Buchholtz, with the same dedication, appeared in 1597. Cf. Skelton.

This issue is in Latin; French and German issues were also available.

Engraved illustrated t.p., with descriptive letterpress on verso, "In frontispicivm Theatri qvarti vrbivm Georgii Bravnii Agrippinatis"; each map has descriptive letterpress on verso.

Privileges dated 1672 and 1674 made out to Georg Braun, Franz Hogenberg, and Simon Novellanus; maps engraved by Hogenberg, Novellanus, Matthias Quad, and Paul Pfinzing von Henfenfeld after Heinrich Rantzau (Germany), Joris Hoefnagel (Italy), and others.

The maps are dated 1580-1586, with letterpress dated 1584-1597, and numbered by stamping; some maps have the imprint "Coloniae" or "Coloniae Agrippinae."

Includes index.

Braun & Hogenberg. Civitates, ed. Skelton, I, xxvii