Very fine and detailed view of Padova from Zeiller’s “Itinerarium Italia Nova Antiqua” published by Merian in Franckfurt 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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[Italian only] Graziosa e non comune litografia raffigurante Bogliaco e in lontananza Gargnano. In alto la scritta “Tyrol” e in basso, oltre al titolo in caratteri rinforzati le firme dell’autore e le indicazioni dell’editore. Georg Pezolt ,allievo di Leopold Robert, fu valente pittore e litografo. Le sue vedute illustrano particolarmente localit del Tirolo, di Salisburgo e dintorni. Confronta “Il Garda nelle Stampe” nr. 153 [cod.1048/15]
- Year: 1836
- Dimension: 210 x 225 mm
- Place of publication: Milan
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Impressive very fine large view of Venice by Franz Josef Sandmann (1805-1856) after Nicolas Marie Chapuy (1790-1858) published in Wien in 1850 by Paterno & Sohn.
- Year: 1850 ca.
- Dimension: 420 x 660 mm
- Place of publication: Vienna
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Rare small plan of Padua after Pietro Bertelli same depiction of the town published in his “Teatrum urbium Italicarum”. The more substantial differences are the disappearance of the point of interest in plate and the smaller measures. The curious engraving is part of a map depicting the 12 cities (Venice, Padua, Verona, Brescia, Parma, Florence, Ferrara, Ancona, Siena, Genoa, Mantua and Milan) that surround a map of Italy. [cod.983/15]
- Year: 1660
- Dimension: 80 x 60 mm
- Place of publication: London
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Out of stockRare copper engraving from “Nova et Accurata Italiae Hoderniae Descriptio” published in Leiden by Bonaventura e A. Elsevir in 1627. [cod.372/15]
- Year: 1627
- Dimension: 244 x 175 mm
- Place of publication: Leiden
