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Striking 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]
€ 250,00
Striking 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]
Nice panorama of Ostia in Lazio. From “Topographia Italiae” by M. Merian published in Franckfurt in 1688. 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. […]
Panorama of the town from “The Ecclesiastical Architecture in Italy..” by Henry Knight. [cod.1085/15]
Nice tinted lithograph from “The Ecclesiastical Architecture in Italy..” by Henry Knight. [cod.1085/15]
Large-scale panoramic view of Rome, by Georg Balthasar Probst after a drawn by Friedrich Bernhard Werner, who made a large series of engravings of European cities in this format. Depicting the city from a slight elevation, not quite a bird?s-eye view, but related to the tradition of earlier cartography that combined maps and landscape drawing published by Braun & Hogenberg (1572-1617), Jan Jansson (1596-1664) and others. [cod.1192/15]
