Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis 1574 Frame:none Colour picture postcard Women's Emancipation

Colour picture postcard Women's Emancipation

Number two of Thomas Rowlandson's eight 'Cries of London'

on the forecourt outside Victoria Railway Station

Section 21 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

and in particular the people of Africa

Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis 1574 Frame:none Colour picture postcard Women's EmancipationSecond edition of the map view of London which was included in the first volume of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, published in Cologne in 1572. The sixth and final volume appeared in 1617. Edited by Georg Braun, and eventually containing 546 prospects of cities from all over the world, the atlas was the first of its type. The first volume concentrated on European cities, 79 in all. Braun, a cleric of Cologne, was the principal editor of the compendium,