Nice Merian’s plan of Lucca from Itinerarium Italiae Nova Antiqua… 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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- Place of publication: Frankfurt
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Out of stockRare map of Tuscany by De Fer published in Paris in 1719. [cod.090/15]
- Year: 1719
- Dimension: 520 x 590 mm
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A very attractive “vue d’optique” of Holy Trinity Bridge in Florence. taken from Ponte Vecchio. This unusual kind of print was designed to be looked in a peep box which made the prints seem to be in three dimensions. Published in Paris at Daumont in 1780 ca.
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Out of stockAn interesting early map of the region of Lucca in Tuscany from Coronelli’s Corso Geografico Universale published in Venice in 1690. 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 ecclesiastical career and never suppressed. He made very famous globes
- Year: 1690
- Dimension: 448 x 600 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
