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Title: Alexandria

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1575

Publishers

  • [Cologne : Braun and Hogenberg, 1575]

Summary

Bird's-eye view of Alexandria, Egypt. Relief shown pictorially. Includes descriptive text: Alexandria, vetustissimum Ægypti emporium, amplissima ciuitas. Detached from Braun, G. and F. Hogenberg. Civitates orbis terrarum, liber 2, 56. On verso: one page of German text titled Alexandria.

Subjects

  • Egypt
  • Alexandria (Egypt)—Maps—Early works to 1800
  • Other

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (29.866911, 29.925104, 31.216858, 31.170896)
  • Geometry: BBOX (29.866911, 29.925104, 31.216858, 31.170896)

Provider

Princeton

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622. Alexandria. [Cologne : Braun and Hogenberg, 1575]. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-3x816q08b

Format

TIFF

Languages

  • lat