Detailed town plan of Milan, showing the fortified walls, City Gates, inner ring and important public buildings, squares, etc. Includes a key naming 73 places. Coat of arms in upper right corner. from Zeiller’s “Itinerarium Italia Nova Antiqua” published by Merian 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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Interesting regional map of Milan centered on the lakes and the Alps from the Atlas Major published in Amsterdam in 1664. The famous Blaeu’s firm was founded in 1596 by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638) then continued by his two sons Cornelius (1616-1648) and Johannis (1596-1673). Their greatest cartographic achievement was the publication of the magnificent Atlas Major with 600 maps all finely engraved and embellished by elaborate cartouches, heraldic detail and especially by splendid calligraphy.…
- Year: 1664
- Dimension: 380 x 500 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
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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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Rare tinted lithography by Léon Auguste Asselineau after I.L. Deroy. Published in Paris by Lemercier circa 1840.
- Year: 1840 ca.
- Dimension: 370 x 595 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
