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    Merian’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.

    • Author: MERIAN Mattheus
    • Dimension: 700 x 300 mm
    • Place of publication: Frankfurt
    • Year: 1688
  • Roma

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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.

    • Author: SACHSISCHER POSTILLON
    • Year: 1784
    • Dimension: 180 x 300 mm
    • Place of publication: Vienna
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    Striking 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.

    • Author: BRAUN Georg - HOGENBERG Franz
    • Dimension: 34 x 49 cm
    • Place of publication: Colonia
    • Year: 1572
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    A 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]

    • Author: ORTELIUS Abraham
    • Year: 1595
    • Dimension: 75 x 105 mm
    • Place of publication: Amsterdam
  • Terracina

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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]

    • Author: SCOTO Francesco
    • Year: 1670
    • Dimension: 118 x 165 mm
    • Place of publication: Padova
  • Terracina

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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]

    • Author: BERTELLI Francesco
    • Year: 1629
    • Dimension: 120 x 175 mm
    • Place of publication: Padova
  • Tivoli

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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]

    • Author: BERTELLI Francesco
    • Year: 1629
    • Dimension: 110 x 165 mm
    • Place of publication: Padova
  • Tivoli

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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…

    • Author: MERIAN Mattheus
    • Dimension: 284 x 360 mm
    • Place of publication: Frankfurt
    • Year: 1640
  • Tivoli.

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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]

    • Author: HONDIUS Jodocus
    • Year: 1627
    • Dimension: 244 x 176 mm
    • Place of publication: Leiden
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    A 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.

    • Author: Domenico Pronti
    • Year: 1785
    • Dimension: 33 x 43 cm
    • Place of publication: Rome
  • A fine and very rare view of Piazza Colonna in Rome engraved with great care by Pierre Aveline. Published in Paris in 1690. Below a key listing 4 point of interest.

    Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 – 23 May 1722) was a notable engraver but also a print-publisher and print-seller. He probably trained with Adam Pérelle and, like him, specialized in topographical representations. He engraved in suites many views of Paris and of provincial, European and African cities, mixing etching and burin.

    • Author: AVELINE Pierre
    • Year: 1690
    • Dimension: 310x 210 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris