1653

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    [Switzerland] Carte generale des treze cantons de Suisse, Vallay ligues Grise, Maison-Dieu & Valteline

    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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    Bergamasque Cremasque et Bressan

    This etching, enhanced with burin engraving, depicts the territories of Brescia, Bergamo, and Crema. It is sourced from Philippe Briet’s lesser-known historical-geographical work Parallela Geographica, published in Paris in 1648 by the Cramoisy brothers’ printing house. Briet’s work aimed to juxtapose the achievements of ancient and modern geography. Ancient sources cited include Strabo, Ptolemy, Pliny, and Heraclitus, while modern cartographers referenced—alongside Ortelius, Magini, Botero, Mercator, and Cluverius—are Flavio Biondo and Leandro Alberti, whose regional divisions…

    • Author: BRIET Philippe
    • Year: 1653
    • Dimension: 145 x 190 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris

  • Due pecore e una capra accovacciate

    € 120,00

    A goat and two sheep resting, the central sheep seen from the rear, the goat at right and facing the viewer, a fence in background, a seated shepherd in left background; Third state of 3 with number 7 out of the line. Signed and dated in lower left corner: “K.D.I f / 1653”. A couple of stain and old restoring near the upper left corner. Otherwise good condition. [cod.975/15]

    • Author: DUJARDIN Carel
    • Year: 1653
    • Dimension: 132 x 138 mm
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    La Principaute et la Capitanate

    Nice and detailed map of Campania with Neaples and Sorrento and Capitanata in Puglia from “Parallela geographica Italiae veteris et novae”, a rare work by Philip Briet published in Paris in 1649 at Sebastian Cramoisy. [cod.458/15]

    • Author: BRIET Philippe
    • Year: 1653
    • Dimension: 145 x 190 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
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    Le Patrimoine de St. Pierre La Champaigne de Rome Les Sabins et le Territoire d’Orvieto

    Nice and detailed map of Lazio centered on Rome from “Parallela geographica Italiae veteris et novae”, a rare work by Philip Briet published in Paris in 1649 at Sebastian Cramoisy. [cod.306/15]

    • Author: BRIET Philippe
    • Year: 1653
    • Dimension: 198 x 144 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris