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Large-scale panoramic view of Rome, by Georg Balthasar Probst based upon the artwork of Friedrich Bernhard Werner, who made a large series of engravings of European cities in this striking format. Werner includes a numbered key at the bottom of the map identifying important sites and buildings. [cod.1192/15]
- Year: 1728
- Dimension: 345 x 1110 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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Out of stockMerian’s panoramic view of Rome is a reduction of Antonio Tempesta’s monumental map of 1593. Oriented with north to the left, it shows the city at the height of the Italian Renaissance. The projection provides a particularly graphic view of many of the important buildings, churches and monuments with the Tiber River in the foreground. From Merian’s Topographia Italiae published in Franckfurt in 1688.
- Dimension: 700 x 300 mm
- Place of publication: Frankfurt
- Year: 1688
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A rare copper engraved panorama of Rome taken from the really uncommon “Sachsischer Postillon” a kind of historic-geographic magazine published in Vienna in 1784. At top the portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III and a key to 82 point of interest numbered on the view. The author is George Hisler (signed in the lower right) who drawn Rome in curious German stile easily visible in the shape of the roofs and bell towers. Central fold as issued. In very good condition.
- Year: 1784
- Dimension: 180 x 300 mm
- Place of publication: Vienna
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Out of stockStriking bird’s-eye plan of Rome with decorative title cartouche, showing the city as it was c. 1550. Included are various surviving features of ancient Rome: the surrounding walls, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, the Arch of Constantine, and the Forum Romanum.
- Dimension: 34 x 49 cm
- Place of publication: Colonia
- Year: 1572
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Out of stockA fine miniature map from “Epitome Theatri Ortelliani” published in Amsterdam in 1595 with latin text on verso.This edition is as stated the only one not printed by Christopher Platin but by Arnoldus Coninx and is recognized as one of the best editions of Epitome released. [cod.302/15]
- Year: 1595
- Dimension: 75 x 105 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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View of the town from “Itinerario overo decrittione de’ viaggi principali in Italia” by Francesco Scoto published in Padua by Matteo Cadorin in 1670. [cod.329/15]
- Year: 1670
- Dimension: 118 x 165 mm
- Place of publication: Padova
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Rare copper engraving of Terracina from “Theatro delle citta’ d’Italia, con nova aggiunta” by Francesco Bertelli published in 1629. [cod.330/15]
- Year: 1629
- Dimension: 120 x 175 mm
- Place of publication: Padova
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Rare copper engraving of Tivoli from “Theatro delle citta’ d’Italia, con nova aggiunta” by Francesco Bertelli published in 1629. [cod.315/15]
- Year: 1629
- Dimension: 110 x 165 mm
- Place of publication: Padova
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A nice view of Tivoli from Merian’s “Topographia Italiae” published in Frankfurt in 1640. Mattheus Merian was a notable Swiss engraver, born in Basle in 1593, who subsequently studied in Zurich and then moved to Frankfurt where he met Theodore de Bry, whose daughter he married in 1617. They had numerous children together, including a daughter, Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, born in 1647. She became a pioneering naturalist and illustrator. Two of their sons followed…
- Dimension: 284 x 360 mm
- Place of publication: Frankfurt
- Year: 1640
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Rare copper engraving from “Nova et Accurata Italiae Hoderniae Descriptio” published in Leiden by Bonaventura e A. Elsevir in 1627. [cod.316/15]
- Year: 1627
- Dimension: 244 x 176 mm
- Place of publication: Leiden
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Interesting wall map of the surroundings of Rome at the scale 1:100,000 with toponymy in Latin and, in brackets and in smaller characters, in Italian. Drawn by the famous cartographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818 – 1899) and published by the Geographisches Institut in Weimar in 1850. Waterways, roads and Roman aqueducts are highlighted in colour and the reliefs are rendered by shading. The graphic scale shows the German mile, the Italian mile and the Roman mile.…
- Dimension: 108 x 94 cm
- Place of publication: Weimar
- Year: 1850
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Out of stockA fine, large and rare view of Piazza del Popolo in Rome engraved with great care by Domenico Pronti. Published in Rome and sold in Piazza di Spagna by the author himself in 1785. Below the title a key listing the The Flaminio Obelisk (obelisco Egizio), Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto.
- Year: 1785
- Dimension: 33 x 43 cm
- Place of publication: Rome
