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The title block names the sheet a map of Brussels in French, and the plan is printed in color so that streets, parks and rail lines can be told apart at a glance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plan lays out the neighborhoods, main streets, parks and transport lines of the Belgian capital, and a legend explains each of the symbols. Pharus-Verlag was a prominent German publisher that specialized in detailed urban maps, so the sheet has the crisp, practical look of a plan made for travelers and residents. The atlas treats Brussels as one of four foreign cities appended to twenty German ones, and the margins carry commercial notices. At the top is an advertisement for the Magdeburgische Zeitung, a newspaper that billed itself as the largest political and business paper of central Germany, and at the bottom is a notice for a relocation firm with addresses in Brussels and Antwerp. 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The Society was known for inexpensive maps that encouraged wide use in education, and its city plans are singled out in the catalog for their vignettes and great detail. M. C. Branch's Atlas of Rare City Maps lists the plan on pages 20 and 21, and the atlas that carries it is bound in half leather with gilt lettering on the spines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collector of nineteenth-century city plans, a family with roots in Antwerp, or a student of port cities will find a lasting gift here. TheMapVault's Brussels plan from the same Society, dated 1837, comes from the same atlas, whereas this one gives Antwerp its own river view and eleven building facades. 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