Italy
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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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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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Out of stockNon comune bella guida in francese edita dal Vespa club d’Italia per promuovere i viaggi nel Bel Paese e scoprirne le bellezze in Vespa. La divertente guida è corredata da 14 carte geografiche pittoriche disegnate dall’illustratore Nicouline che mostrano le regioni italiane con le loro peculiarità e luoghi da visitare. Le carte sono completate dalle tabelle con l’indicazione delle salite e le altitudini da raggiungere nei vari itinerari. Il testo prevede anche i luoghi tipici per le soste, i rifornimenti, le officine specializzate e i cartelli per una guida sicura in Italia.
- Dimension: 21,5 x 12 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1957
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Out of stockItalie Gastronomique. Carte des Principales Spécialités Gastronomiques des Régions Italiennes
More InfoStriking Art Deco map of the culinary delights of Italy by Umberto Zimelli highlighting the food and wine found throughout Italy.
- Dimension: 66 x 48 cm
- Place of publication: Rome
- Year: 1931
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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
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Out of stockFine map of northern Italy during the Second War of Independence, drawn and engraved on steel by John Rapkin, from Thomas Wright’s 1860 Royal Dictionary-Cyclopedia for Universal Reference. The map includes an inset detailing the “Quadrilateral,” a strategic defensive system of fortresses (Mantua, Verona, Peschiera, and Legnago) controlled by the Austrian Empire. These fortresses were crucial during the Italian Risorgimento for dominating communication routes and waterways in the Po Valley. A decorative frame with allegorical…
- Dimension: 24 x 31 cm
- Place of publication: London
- Year: 1860
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Out of stockSuperb 18th century map of the whole of Italy that also includes the islands of Corsica and Sardina, part of Sicily and the coastline of Balkans. Beautifully engraved with Seutter’s typical bold style and detail. Title cartouche at top right features several cherubs and in the opposite corner features a distance scale with a river god, a globe and several putti. As usual, both cartouches are uncolored. Published in Augburg in 1725 ca. by M. Seutter.
- Year: 1725 ca.
- Dimension: 573 x 490 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
