A beautiful and rare map showing the isle of Re near La Rochelle from Coronelli’s Corso Geografico Universale published in Venice in 1690. The cartouche also contains the dedication to Lolin. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli is widely recognised as one of Italy?s most famous and greatest cartographers. He received an ecclesiastical education at the convent of the Minor Conventuals and also studied theology in Rome. However, his interests in geography and cartography were awoken early in his ecclesiastic
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Color pictorial map of Auvergne covered with vignettes drawings of people and products of the province with explanation, representing region’s historical figures and events, resources, sights, churches, important buildings, people, activities, crops, etc. Includes decorative title cartouche and compass rose. Relief shown pictorially. Published by Ode Paris in 1951 from a drawn by Jaques Liozu.
- Dimension: 490 x 340 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1951
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The area north of Cahors and the Dordogne. Highly decorative title cartouche. From ‘Atlante Novissimo’. Very good condition with nice and decorative original colours. [cod.1020/15]
- Year: 1779
- Dimension: 405 x 305 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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Engraved hand-colored in outline, double-page map of northeastern France, including Burgundy and Lyon, with title cartouche. Shows administrative divisions, towns, villages, forests, mountains and rivers. From Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle osservazioni, e scoperte fatte dai più celebri e più recenti cartografi by Antonio Zatta published in Venice in 1779. In very good condition with nice and decorative original colours.
- Year: 1779
- Dimension: 420 x 320 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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Map of Corsica oriented north to the left taken from the Flemish edition of Johannes Blaeu’s famous Atlas Major published in Amsterdam in 1664. The cartography is based on Giovanni Antonio Magini’s surveys, here re-proposed by Blaeu with the same precise toponymy but with a more careful representation of the reliefs and the river system. The famous publishing house of the Blaeu family was founded in Amsterdam in 1596 by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638) who…
- Year: 1664
- Dimension: 180 x 240 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
