Italy
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Out of stockAn unconventional aerial view of Italy depicted in a south-oriented perspective as if observed from a high vantage, or as titled “from 20,000 meters”, point above the Alps. The Italian Alps dominate the foreground, with Sicily, Malta, and the North African coast visible in the background. Italy’s cities, represented by clusters of buildings in shadow, are identified, such as Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples. In the bottom left corner, there are comparative charts showing…
- Dimension: 40 x 53 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1865
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In the pivotal historical context of the Italian Risorgimento, cartography did not merely serve a documentary purpose or simply depict the territory; rather, it emerged as a genuine strategic and geopolitical tool. An example of this is the map “Italia Superiore ed i Ducati contenente i più minuti dettagli possibili alla scala di 1/1111111.11 per illustrazione degli avvenimenti della guerra dell’Indipendenza d’Italia publicata da Gio. Richetti incisore geografo” designed and engraved by Modotti and published…
- Dimension: 50 x 78 cm
- Place of publication: Turin
- Year: 1859
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An interesting map of ancient Italy by Giovanni Spinelli and engraved on copper by Leopold Mayr published in Milan in 1723. In the upper right the title “Italiae Antiquae Tabula Mediolani ex Typographia Soc. Palatinae MDCCXXIII” in a decorative cartouche with the Roman gods of Saturn and Mercury.
- Year: 1723
- Dimension: 730 x 510 mm
- Place of publication: Milan
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Out of stockCarta geografica intagliata in legno che mostra l’Italia, dalle Alpi a Napoli, tratta dall’opera “Cosmografia Universalis” di Sebastian Munster pubblicata a Basilea nel 1578. Si tratta di una delle prime mappe stampate dell’Italia settentrionale basata su dati contemporanei. Tra le città evidenziate ci sono Roma, Venezia, Ferrara, Bologna, Milano, Padova, Verona con il lago di Garda, Genova, Firenze, Torino, Trento, Aquileia, Trieste. Viene mostrato anche il Mar Adriatico come “Adriaticum Mare”, e sono presenti isole…
- Dimension: 16 x 13 cm
- Place of publication: Basle
- Year: 1578
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Fine and early historical map of Italy based on classical sources and Gastaldi’s from the 1624 final edition by Balthasar Moretus of the first historical atlas ever published. Ortelius’s Parergon began as a companion to his Theatrum but eventually it became an independent work. In fact, this collection of maps of the ancient world was so significant that it became the model for all historical atlases published throughout the seventeenth century. “The maps and plates…
- Year: 1624
- Dimension: 346 x 483 mm
- Place of publication: Antewerp
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First edition of the map depicting Italy as it was known in Roman times. Taken from Abraham Ortelius’s Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon; Sive Veteris Geographiae Tabulae, the first historical atlas ever published, printed in Antwerp in 1584. The first edition of this beautiful map is easily recognizable by the presence, at the bottom, of an elaborate decorative cartouche enclosing the title “Italia” and the allegorical figure of the peninsula, instead of the double medallion that…
- Year: 1584
- Dimension: 346 x 483 mm
- Place of publication: Antewerp
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This curious and uncommon pictorial map was commissioned to the artist N. Nicouline by ED.A.S. of Rome, the organizing body for the Holy Year of 1950, and was published in Milan in 1949. In it, Nicouline depicts Italy by highlighting its cathedrals, sanctuaries, and the birthplaces of saints, each identified with refined illustrated vignettes. The entire composition is inspired by old maps, combining the classical style of 17th-century cartography with an approach reminiscent of medieval…
- Dimension: 51 x 67 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1949
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This delightful small map of Italy, published in 1846 in Julius Loewenberg’s children’s atlas Geographische Länder-Fibel, is a fascinating example of 19th-century cartography designed for educational purposes. At the center of the composition, the map of Italy showcases the pre-unification states, with their borders highlighted in beautiful contrasting colors: the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Papal States, and the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom. Surrounding the map is an ornate frame featuring figures…
- Dimension: 14 x 18 cm
- Place of publication: Berlin
- Year: 1846
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Out of stockStriking map of Italy by J.G. Schreibern, with decorative cartouche, compass rose and descriptive text in the right. Based on Blaeu’s map of Italy of 1635. From “Atlas Selectus” first published in Leipzig in 1740. A fine old color example. [cod.1138/15]
- Year: 1740
- Dimension: 167 x 215 mm.
- Place of publication: Lipsia
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Out of stockA wonderful and rare poster promoting tourism in Italy, showing the peninsula as a perspective view and with very interesting annotations highlighting the moments, the productive activities, the new resources, the social and economic changes that allowed Italy to recover after the Second World War. Designed by Arti Grafiche Menaglia and published in Rome in 1956 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Italian Embassy in the United States based in New York.
- Dimension: 100 x 70 cm.
- Place of publication: Rome
- Year: 1956
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Out of stockA rare and little known map of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy taken from Franz Reisser’s Atlas der neuen Geographie published in Vienna in 1813 by the publisher Schulbücher-Verschleiss. The map describes the Kingdom of Italy in the form it took in its final years, i.e. from 1809 to 1814, after Napoleon united South Tyrol and took Trieste and Istria from it. The rest of central and northern Italy is ‘Kaiserthum Frankreich’. All departments of…
- Dimension: 41 x 30 cm
- Place of publication: Vienna
- Year: 1813
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Out of stockDivertente carta geografica pittorica dell’Italia disegnata da Fausto Borrani e pubblicata a Brescia dall’Editrice la Scuola nel 1950. La carta mostra attraverso deliziose vignette le peculiarità produttive, storiche, gastronomiche e turistiche di ogni regione. L’apparato decorativo è completato dalla bella rosa dei venti che contempla fiori e frutti tipici del Bel Paese. Una delle poche rappresentazioni pittoriche a mostrare il Territorio Libero di Trieste, lo Stato indipendente istituito nel 1947 come da accordi nel trattato…
- Dimension: 42 x 53 cm
- Place of publication: Brescia
- Year: 1950
