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    Rare map of Mantua showing the Kingdom of Venice and Duchy of Milan

    • Author: S.M. (?)
    • Dimension: 33 x 50 cm
    • Place of publication: Venice
    • Year: 1680
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    Rara carta geografica della provincia di Mantova che manca della scala e della graduazione geografica ma che propone un’accurata rappresentazione del territorio secondo i rilevamenti del colonnello Fedor von Karacsay che, nel sottotitolo, la dichiara «conforme à l orografia». Oltre alle consuete indicazioni di carattere politico ed economico ne compaiono altre relative alle istituzioni austriache vigenti: preture, ricevitorie doganali, confini di delegazioni e distretti. La carta si distingue per il preciso tratto grafico, l’elegante calligrafia…

    • Author: Fedor von Karacsay (1787 - 1859)
    • Dimension: 43 x 58 cm
    • Year: 1840
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    Extremely scarce map of Milan one of the few engraved by George Paul Busch.

    • Author: Georg Paul Busch
    • Dimension: 28 x 36 cm
    • Place of publication: Berlin
    • Year: 1740
  • Interesting regional map of Milan centered on the lakes and the Alps from the Atlas Major published in Amsterdam in 1664. The famous Blaeu’s firm was founded in 1596 by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638) then continued by his two sons Cornelius (1616-1648) and Johannis (1596-1673). Their greatest cartographic achievement was the publication of the magnificent Atlas Major with 600 maps all finely engraved and embellished by elaborate cartouches, heraldic detail and especially by splendid calligraphy.…

    • Author: BLAEU Johannis
    • Year: 1664
    • Dimension: 380 x 500 mm
    • Place of publication: Amsterdam
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    Interesting map of Duchy of Milan and Kingdom of Venice centered on Lago di Garda. The map provides a remarkably detailed topographical view of the region north of the Alpennines, including the thriving commercial and agricultural regions from Turin and Milan to the low lying regions west of Venice, with many postal roads and other details shown. The map includes an elaborate title cartouche reflecting the military activity in the mountainous regions of the map,…

    • Author: SEUTTER Georg Matthaus
    • Dimension: 47 x 57 cm
    • Place of publication: Augsburg
    • Year: 1730
  • veduta milano

    Rare tinted lithography by Léon Auguste Asselineau after I.L. Deroy. Published in Paris by Lemercier circa 1840.

    • Author: DE ROY
    • Year: 1840 ca.
    • Dimension: 370 x 595 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
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    Non comune versione con la firma del Dezauche e la data 1781 della grande carta geografica dello Stato di Milano e dei territori confinanti edita dal cartografo francese Jaillot per la prima volta nel 1706 e riproposta, corretta, in un secondo stato, nel 1731. Il titolo, in basso a sinistra, è iscritto in un cartiglio sormontato dallo stemma del Re di Francia sostenuto da due putti alati. Nell’angolo in alto a sinistra, sono raffigurate le…

    • Author: Jean-Claude Dezauche, JAILLOT Alexis Hubert
    • Dimension: 52 x 69 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1781
  • stampa antica milano
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    Detailed town plan of Milan, showing the fortified walls, City Gates, inner ring and important public buildings, squares, etc. Includes a key naming 73 places. Coat of arms in upper right corner. from Zeiller’s “Itinerarium Italia Nova Antiqua” published by Merian 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…

    • Author: MERIAN Mattheus
    • Year: 1640
    • Dimension: 270 x 350 mm
    • Place of publication: Frankfurt
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    A detailed town plan of Milan, showing the fortified walls, city gates, inner ring, important public buildings, squares, and much more. At right a key to the most important hotels, churches and theatres including useful information for the travelers.

    • Author: Antonio Vallardi Editore, Serafino Muggiani
    • Dimension: 32 x 37 cm
    • Place of publication: Milan
    • Year: 1879
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    Carta geografica dell’antico Ducato di Milano che descrive in bel dettaglio anche i territori confinanti. Nel bel cartiglio con il titolo, che comprende anche il ritratto di Attila e una scena di caccia al cervo, la firma dell’incisore, il celebre Daniel Stopendaal. Tratta dall’opera Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae di Johann Georg Graevius edita a Leida nel 1722 presso Pieter Van der Aa. Pieter van der Aa (Leida, 1659-1733) Già nel 1682 Pieter van der…

    • Author: Pieter Van der Aa
    • Dimension: 34,5 x 41,5 cm
    • Place of publication: Leiden
    • Year: 1722
  • Pianta schematica delle fortificazioni della città e del porto di Civitavecchia  tratta dall’opera Curioses Staats und Kriegs Theatrum di Gabriel Bodenehr (firma in basso a destra) pubblicata ad Augsburg nel 1725. A sinistra descrizione della città in tedesco e cinque riferimenti ad altrettanti luoghi di interesse.

    • Author: BODENHER Gabriel
    • Year: 1725
    • Dimension: 140 x 220 mm
    • Place of publication: Augsburg
  • etna sicily
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    Superb pictorial bird’s-eye view of Mount Etna drawn by the legendary illustrator Heinrich Caesar Berann and published in 1953 by the Catania Tourist Board. This charming tourist map is illustrated in baroque style with decorative borders and an antique-looking map of Catania in the left side-panel. On the verso are photographs of Etna and its environs, accompanied by information about climbing the volcano. Heinrich Caesar Berann (1915 – 1999) was an Austrian painter and cartographer. He achieved…

    • Author: Heinrich Caesar Berann
    • Dimension: 43 x 62 cm
    • Place of publication: Genoa
    • Year: 1953