Null Mainz - Views - 2 sheets, including: 1x "Ments", historical general view wi…
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Mainz - Views - 2 sheets, including: 1x "Ments", historical general view with drawing of the sights, discreet figural staffage and navigated Rhine; old colored etching by Franz Hogenberg, from the city book "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (in the German translation by Schefold: Beschreibung und Contrafactur der vornembster Staet der Welt) by Georg Braun (1541 - 1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535 - 1590, German painter, engraver, etcher and publisher), Cologne 1572; titled top center, title cartouche to the left "Moguntia, Germaniae Metropolis, ad Rheini [...]"; ca. 13 x 47.5cm; centerfold, browned / stained / light-stained, some creasing at upper margin and a small tear at platemark; matted, framed behind glass (traces of age, dedication on verso, unopened, ca. 27.5 x 62.5cm); 1x "Mainz", historical view with view over the Rhine; in the foreground railroad and south bridge with alienated towers; chromolithograph, by S. Lankhout & Co. La Haye, The Hague, c. 1880; c. 24.5 x 34.5cm; minimally browned, minimal crease at top right; matted, frame behind glass (traces of age, unopened, c. 47.5 x 56cm)

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Mainz - Views - 2 sheets, including: 1x "Ments", historical general view with drawing of the sights, discreet figural staffage and navigated Rhine; old colored etching by Franz Hogenberg, from the city book "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (in the German translation by Schefold: Beschreibung und Contrafactur der vornembster Staet der Welt) by Georg Braun (1541 - 1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535 - 1590, German painter, engraver, etcher and publisher), Cologne 1572; titled top center, title cartouche to the left "Moguntia, Germaniae Metropolis, ad Rheini [...]"; ca. 13 x 47.5cm; centerfold, browned / stained / light-stained, some creasing at upper margin and a small tear at platemark; matted, framed behind glass (traces of age, dedication on verso, unopened, ca. 27.5 x 62.5cm); 1x "Mainz", historical view with view over the Rhine; in the foreground railroad and south bridge with alienated towers; chromolithograph, by S. Lankhout & Co. La Haye, The Hague, c. 1880; c. 24.5 x 34.5cm; minimally browned, minimal crease at top right; matted, frame behind glass (traces of age, unopened, c. 47.5 x 56cm)

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