A rare playing card showing Corsica. Below descriptive text on Isle. Published in Paris in 1780 ca. [cod.490/15]
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A rare playing card showing Corsica. Below descriptive text on Isle. Published in Paris in 1780 ca. [cod.490/15]
€ 180,00
A rare playing card showing Corsica. Below descriptive text on Isle. Published in Paris in 1780 ca. [cod.490/15]
Nice tinted lithograph by De Mercey showing Bastia taken from the sea. From a drawn of Ciceri. Published by Lemercier in Paris in 1840. [cod.1247/15]
A particularly attractive pictorial map of Ardennes in the north of France centered on Lille and Arras by anonymous author published in 1930 circa. This map is covered with vignettes describing major towns and landmarks along the roads. Includes decorative cartouche, compass rose and inset lovely views illustrating Dieppe, Abbeville, Amiens, Rouen, Harfleur and Le Touquet. Uncommon.
Rare and finely engraved map of the Duchy of Savoy, published in Venice by the important Lafreri School mapmaker Paolo Forlani, and Ferrando Bertelli.
The map was long believed to be the earliest modern map of the Duchy of Savoy, until the discovery (in 1903) of a 2 sheet map by Gilles Boileau de Bouillon ( Nova et exactissima Sabaudie Ducat Descriptio), published in 1556, which was copied by Forlani.
A fine miniature map of Sardinia from “Theatro del Mondo” the famous plagiarised version of Ortelius’ pocket atlas published specifically for the Italian market by Pietro Marchetti. First printed in Brescia this is the really rare Venetian edition of 1667. Italian text on verso. [cod.169/15]