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(Cairo). Cairus Quae Olim Babilon Aegipti Maxima Urbs.

Maker / Publisher:		BRAUN &amp; HOGENBERG.
Place & Date:		Cologne, 1572
Colored:		Colored.
Size:		580 x 450 mm / 22.8 x 17.7 inches
Condition:		Re-margined and likely washed, light foxing to new margins, two small tears to lower margin not affecting image (one of which has been repaired). The lettering of the title on this copy in Roman type and differs from the more fluid aspect of the first edi

Selling price: $260
Sold in 2023

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Descriptive Latin text to verso. The city of Cairo, made up of highly uniform cubic houses interspersed with minarets and gardens, is seen from the right bank of the Nile. Running down the right-hand side is a schematic range of high hills on which the pyramids and the Sphinx can be seen. The accompanying Latin text says of the Sphinx: ""This head consists of a single piece of stone, the face alone is ten lesser hexapedes (a measure of length equal to six feet) long. According to Strabo, it is a monument to a beautiful, tragic hetaera named Rhodopis. The king took her as his wife and after her death he had this head and pyramid built for her."" The Latin text at the top runs: ""These pyramids were nothing but an idle display of royal wealth. In this way the kings, or rather the crowned beasts, namely hoped to make their names immortal on earth and to keep their memory alive for a long time. Nothing in the world is of less fame, however, since neither the architect nor the insane king who built a pyramid is recorded."" Daily life is illustrated in the left-hand foreground, where women in veils are riding donkeys and a man is picking dates. In 1517 Cairo became part of the Ottoman Empire and is today the capital of Egypt with some eight million inhabitants. (Taschen).

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