Italy

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    [Milano] Pianta della città di Milano 1879

    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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    [Milano] Status Mediolanensis cum confinibus

    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

  • [Roma] Civitavecchia Centumcellae

    € 80,00

    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
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    [Sicily] Etna, Sicilia. Fuoco Neve Mare Sole

    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
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    [Teatro della Guerra]

    Importante carta geografica che mostra la porzione di territorio nel nord Italia scenario delle battaglie combattute durante la guerra di successione spagnola da Eugenio di Savoia. Si conosce un esemplare di questa carta conservato presso il fondo cartografico della città di Mantova descritto come “rarissima e anonima carta di ambito romano edita (presunta da una nota al verso) nel 1733”. La carta non presenta indicazioni di responsabilità ma da un attento confronto risulta essere una…

    • Author: Gaetano Bianchi, Giacomo Solari, Simone Durello
    • Dimension: 54 x 97,5 cm
    • Place of publication: Milan
    • Year: 1720
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    [Verona] La città di Verona capitale della provincia Veronese nel Dominio Veneto

    Panoramic view of Verona by Francesco Cepparuli from “Lo Stato Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo … parte dell’Italia dedicata a Ignazio Boncompagni Ludovisi” published in Naples, 1754. This is the well-known plagiarized version re-engraved by Cepparuli of the same plate in Thomas Salmon’ Lo Stato Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo published in 1751 by Albrizzi.

    • Author: Francesco Cepparuli
    • Dimension: 16 x 31 cm
    • Place of publication: Naples
    • Year: 1754
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    A Plan of the City of Naples

    An appealing 1800 map or city plan of Naples, issued by John Stockdale. The map is very detailed, noting walls, forts, bridges, gates, roads and a host of additional topographical features. In the sea a compass rose and a panel listing 80 point of interest. At bottom left a nice baroque title cartouche with lovely vignette. At topo, out of margin, the King’s Castle.
    From J. Stockdale’s “A geographical, historical and political description of the empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia” Published in London, 1800.

    • Author: John Stockdale
    • Dimension: 20 x 26 cm
    • Place of publication: London
    • Year: 1800
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    Abruzzo Citra et Ultra

    Interesting map of Abruzzo 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. The Atlas Major represents one of the f

    • Author: BLAEU Johannis
    • Year: 1664
    • Dimension: 380 x 500 mm
    • Place of publication: Amsterdam

  • Abruzzo et Terra di Lavoro

    € 350,00

    Detailed early map of Abruzzo and Campania with the north to the right from the Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi by G. Mercator published in Amsterdam, 1606 at Hondius.

    • Author: MERCATOR Gerard
    • Year: 1619
    • Dimension: 351 x 484 mm
    • Place of publication: Amsterdam

  • Action bei Carpi

    € 300,00

    A rare and very decorative scene of the battle near Cassano. From “Repraesentatio belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico…”, published in Ausburg in 1720 by Jeremias Wolff. Inset in the beautifull cartouche a little map of the area of the battle.

    • Author: DECKER Paul, Jeremias Wolff
    • Year: 1720
    • Dimension: 350 x 500 mm
    • Place of publication: Augsburg
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    Alta e Bassa Lombardia

    Rare separate map of upper and lower Lombardy, which, as was customary at the time, represented the entire northern Italy and extended the representation of the territory to the Republic of Genoa and the Duchies of Parma, Modena, and Mantua. The map, signed at the bottom right Ant Dozel Gallus Sculp, is based, as reported in the cartouche, on the surveys of Giacomo Cantelli and was printed to be included in a complex editorial project…

    • Author: Paolo Petrini
    • Dimension: 45 x 61,5 cm
    • Place of publication: Naples
    • Year: 1700

  • Ancona

    € 90,00

    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.242/15]

    • Author: SCOTO Francesco
    • Year: 1670
    • Dimension: 120 x 171 mm
    • Place of publication: Padova