A nice view of Tivoli from Merian’s “Topographia Italiae” published in Frankfurt in 1640. Mattheus Merian was a notable Swiss engraver, born in Basle in 1593, who subsequently studied in Zurich and then moved to Frankfurt where he met Theodore de Bry, whose daughter he married in 1617. They had numerous children together, including a daughter, Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, born in 1647. She became a pioneering naturalist and illustrator. Two of their sons followed Merian into publishing. In Frankfurt Mattheus Merian spent most of his working life and with Martin Zeiller (1589-1661), a German Geographer, and later with his own son, he produced a series of Topographia consisting of 21 volumes including a very large number of town plans as well as maps of most countries. He also took over and completed the later parts and editions of the Grand Voyages and Petits Voyages originally started by De Bry in 1590.
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Rare copper engraving from “Nova et Accurata Italiae Hoderniae Descriptio” published in Leiden by Bonaventura e A. Elsevir in 1627. [cod.316/15]
- Year: 1627
- Dimension: 244 x 176 mm
- Place of publication: Leiden
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Large-scale panoramic view of Rome, by Georg Balthasar Probst based upon the artwork of Friedrich Bernhard Werner, who made a large series of engravings of European cities in this striking format. Werner includes a numbered key at the bottom of the map identifying important sites and buildings. [cod.1192/15]
- Year: 1728
- Dimension: 345 x 1110 mm
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Rare copper engraving from “Nova et Accurata Italiae Hoderniae Descriptio” published in Leiden by Bonaventura e A. Elsevir in 1627.
- Year: 1627
- Dimension: 243 x 175 mm
- Place of publication: Leiden
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Rare copper engraving of Tivoli from “Theatro delle citta’ d’Italia, con nova aggiunta” by Francesco Bertelli published in 1629. [cod.315/15]
- Year: 1629
- Dimension: 110 x 165 mm
- Place of publication: Padova
