A rare and little known map of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy taken from Franz Reisser’s Atlas der neuen Geographie published in Vienna in 1813 by the publisher Schulbücher-Verschleiss.
The map describes the Kingdom of Italy in the form it took in its final years, i.e. from 1809 to 1814, after Napoleon united South Tyrol and took Trieste and Istria from it. The rest of central and northern Italy is ‘Kaiserthum Frankreich’. All departments of the Kingdom of Italy are indicated.
The Kingdom of Italy was a state founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805, when, having already become Emperor of the French, he had himself crowned King of Italy on 26 May 1805 in Milan Cathedral. The kingdom replaced the previous Italian Republic (the pre-unification Italian state that existed from 1802 to 1805 and was a political-administrative entity closely dependent on the French Republic) and included much of northern and part of central Italy and had Milan as its capital. The Kingdom did not survive the fall of Napoleon, dissolving in 1814.
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An interesting map of ancient Italy by Giovanni Spinelli and engraved on copper by Leopold Mayr published in Milan in 1723. In the upper right the title “Italiae Antiquae Tabula Mediolani ex Typographia Soc. Palatinae MDCCXXIII” in a decorative cartouche with the Roman gods of Saturn and Mercury.
- Year: 1723
- Dimension: 730 x 510 mm
- Place of publication: Milan
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Out of stockRarissima e stupenda mappa celebrativa dell’Unità d’Italia stampata a Milano presso la litografia Ronchi per conto della Società Editrice dell’Emilia. Eseguita in occasione della proclamazione a Re d’Italia di Vittorio Emanuele II avvenuta a Torino il 17 marzo 1861. La grande carta pittoresca si allontana dal modello classico geografico ma mostra la penisola presa dalle Alpi e orientato prospetticamente con il meridione in alto. La veduta fu disegnata da Gaetano Cappuccio probabilmente su diretta commissione di Cavour in occasione della proclamazione dell’Unità d’Italia. E’ circondata da 46 ritratti di personaggi italiani illustri, 15 vedute di monumenti notabili, 78 stemmi di città e dalle immagini dei principali costumi italiani dai tempi degli etruschi sino a quelli moderni.
- Year: 1861
- Place of publication: Milan
- Dimension: 810 x 1120 mm
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Out of stockDivertente carta dell’Italia divisa in regioni rappresentate come figure antropomorfe vincitrice nel 1908 del concorso geografico del Giornalino della Domenica, deliziosa pubblicazione per fanciulli, di Luigi Bertelli.
Il giornalino della Domenica fu un settimanale creato il 24 giugno 1906 da Luigi Bertelli, alias Vamba, nome tratto da Ivanhoe.
Scrissero per il giornalino, oltre allo stesso Vamba, scrittori e scrittrici celebri quali: Edmondo de Amicis, Luigi Capuana, Grazia Deledda, Ada Negri, Emilio Salgari, Antonio Beltramelli, Luisa Macina Gervasio (nota come Luigi di San Giusto). Nel 1925, confluì nel Giornalino della Domenica, comparendovi come un inserto autonomo, la rivista Giro Giro Tondo, fondata nel 1921 da Antonio Beltramelli.
Le illustrazioni erano eseguite dai migliori disegnatori dell’epoca quali: Antonio Rubino, Giuseppe Biasi, Mario Mossa De Murtas, Filiberto Scarpelli, Umberto Brunelleschi, Marcello Dudovich, Sergio Tofano.
Dopo alterne vicende ed interruzioni cessa definitivamente le pubblicazioni nel 1927.- Dimension: 36 x 27,5 cm
- Place of publication: Florence
- Year: 1908
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Out of stockA beautiful large poster map of Italy by Nicola Simbari published in Rome at Salomone by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Trade as advertisement for Italy’s myriad world-class wines, with each region noted for the wine which it produces. Superb colors and lovely vignettes through the map.
Nicola Simbari (1917-2012) was born in San Lucido, Calabria And grew up in Rome, where his father was an architect for the Vatican. At the age of 13, Nicola enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and in the 1940s he began devoting himself to painting in a studio at via del Babuino in central Rome. Geometric forms and architectural structures are incorporated in almost all of his work. Using stunning colors and favoring brilliant tones, he paints with a palette knife and achieves great depth with this technique. Simbari’s paintings are full of light and energy. He developed a distinct style which stemmed from his impressions of life, nature and the Mediterranean at an early age.- Dimension: 100 x 65 cm
- Place of publication: Rome
- Year: 1957
