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  • Rare copper engraved map of Switzerland. Showing Cantons and other independent regions, towns, villages, landmarks, forests, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouches and compass rose. As in the title the map shows also the Valtellina, the beautiful valley in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, bordering Switzerland. From the rare Theatre geographique de France, contenant les cartes particulieres de ses provinces. Et celles de ses frontieres & pays adjacens published by Pierre-Jean…

    • Author: Pierre-Jean Mariett, TASSIN Nicolas
    • Year: 1653
    • Dimension: 510 x 365 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
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    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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    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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    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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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Interesting plan of the battle at Carpi near Legnago from the rare Schauplatz des Krieges In Italien, Oder Accurate Beschreibung der Lombardey by Thomas Fritschen published in Leipzig in 1702.

    • Author: Thomas Fritschen
    • Year: 1702
    • Dimension: 75 x 140 mm
    • Place of publication: Lipsia
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    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

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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.242/15]

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

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    View of the town from the rare “Itinerarium Italiae” by Andrea Shotti (Scoto) published in Amsterdam in 1655. [cod.244/15]

    • Author: SCOTO Andrea
    • Year: 1655
    • Dimension: 100 x 147 mm
    • Place of publication: Amsterdam
  • Manifesto pubblicitario che mostra disegno della Valle d’Aosta con monumenti e figure in abiti tradizionali affiancato da oggetti e monumenti tipici del territorio. In alto a destra figura allegorica e stilizzata delle tipicità della regione con fucile, sci, racchetta da tennis, picozza, corda e macchina fotografica. In basso a sinistra riquadro con carta del nord Italia e lungo i lati successione di otto stemmi per parte. Al verso fotografie di diverse località ed un testo illustrativo delle caratteristiche della Valle d’Aosta. Pubblicato dall’Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistiche presso lo stampatore Pizzi & Pizio nel 1937-38. Confronta Collezione Salce, Museo Nazionale 05165

    • Author: Gugli Rossi
    • Dimension: 48 x 68 cm
    • Place of publication: Rome
    • Year: 1937