Very fine prospect view of Mantova from Topographiae Italiae published by Merian 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. 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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Important view of the famous Certosa in Pavia embellished in foreground by elegant coaches. Published in Bassano in 1760 by Remondini.
- Year: 1760
- Dimension: 280 x 410 mm
- Place of publication: Bassano
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Out of stockLa vera et ultima discrettione dilla Lombardia et dal molti errori coreta in Venetia l’anno M.D.LXIIIII
More InfoRara e importante carta geografica della Lombardia pubblicata a Venezia come foglio sciolto da Ferrando Bertelli nel 1565. La mappa appartenente alla cosiddetta “scuola lafreriana” mostra in bel dettaglio la porzione di Italia settentrionale che si estende da Casale in Piemonte fino a Venezia e deriva dai modelli cartografici Gastaldiani ripresi precedentemente dal Luchini, dal Camocio e da Pietro de Nobili. Topograficamente, invece, riprende la carta in xilografia del 1520 intagliata da Luca Antonio de…
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- Year: 1565
- Dimension: 305 x 405 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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Out of stockDetailed map of Brescia showing also the Crema’s area from Atlas Novus by H. Hondius published at Amsterdam in 1636. Orientated with north on the left it is based on Magini map of 1620.
- Year: 1636
- Dimension: 390 x 490 mm.
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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A rare and very decorative scene of the battle near Cassano. From “Repraesentatio belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico…”, published in Ausburg in 1720 by Jeremias Wolff. Inset in the beautifull cartouche a little map of the area.
- Year: 1720
- Dimension: 380 x 480 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
