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A fine map depicting northern and central Italy in fine detail, still fragmented into a constellation of sovereign states, just fifteen years after the unification of the peninsula. Published in Milan in 1844 by the publisher Luigi Zucoli as part of the work “Nuovissima guida dei viaggiatori in Italia,” the map focuses on the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (referred to simply as Lombardy in the western portion), which borders the Po Valley duchies to the south.…
- Dimension: 33 x 39 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1844
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This fascinating map, engraved in 1838 for the work *Il fiore di Venezia* published by Tommaso Fontana, represents an attempt to provide a historical and geographical overview of the Veneto region. The title, in the lower right corner, immediately clarifies the author’s scholarly intent: to trace a profile of Venice—both on land and at sea—that brings the Etruscan and Roman eras into dialogue with nineteenth-century reality. The element of greatest analytical interest lies in the…
- Dimension: 35 x 45 cm
- Place of publication: Venice
- Year: 1838
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The “Carta militare di Genova,” engraved by Giuseppe Caniani and published in Milan by Giacomo Pinchetti in 1830, is a refined cartographic document that combines topographic precision with editorial flair. The map effectively captures the complex topography of the Genoa region, where hills, valleys, the coastline, and settlements are arranged in a dense yet legible pattern, offering a view of the Ligurian area that is both analytical and highly scenic. Of particular interest is the…
- Dimension: 45 x 54 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1830
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A large map of Italy published in Milan in 1920 by the De Agostini Geographical Institute, depicting the country’s national identity and its recent imperial ambitions in the aftermath of World War I. The map visually captures the historic territorial gains resulting from the conflict with the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Trentino, South Tyrol (with the border shifted to the Brenner Pass), Venezia Giulia, Trieste, Istria, and Zadar. It is the image of “Greater Italy” finally unified…
- Dimension: 87 x 64 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1920
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A monumental “Map of the Sky” published by the Institut Géographique National (IGN) in Paris in 1973, showing the major constellations as they appear in the sky and as they are visible in the northern and southern hemispheres. The map also indicates the stars visible to the naked eye for each month of the year along the ecliptic. The map uses stunning colors, such as a deep midnight blue background (a color choice that evokes…
- Dimension: 116 x 86 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1973
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A rare map depicting northern Italy during the Second War of Independence, designed and printed in Strasbourg in 1859 by Frédéric-Émile Simon, a figure who stands out in the history of European publishing and chromolithography thanks to his innovations in color printing. In the lower left corner, the publication details highlight the use of “the best French and German documents” and lend the map scientific objectivity, positioning it as a “neutral” source of information in…
- Dimension: 44 x 57 cm
- Place of publication: Strasbourg
- Year: 1859
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- Dimension: 53,5 x 73 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1840
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This large map of Italy, published in Paris in 1859 by the renowned publishing house of Eugène Andriveau-Goujon, is a cartographic document of great interest for reconstructing the geopolitical dynamics of the Risorgimento. The map depicts Italy immediately following the Second War of Independence: Lombardy appears already annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia following the Treaty of Zurich, while Veneto remains under the control of the Austrian Empire, distinguished by its color from the rest…
- Dimension: 125 x 98 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1859
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An antique nautical chart, taken from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s famous compendium *Hydrographie Françoise*, published in Paris in 1797, depicting one of the most crucial and treacherous maritime areas for European navigation between the 18th and 19th centuries: the Bay of Biscay (or Bay of Gascony). The chart is distinguished by a pragmatic approach that prioritizes functional readability: ornamentation is skillfully limited to the title cartouche and technical notes, leaving the main body of the map uncluttered…
- Year: 1797
- Dimension: 855 x 543 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
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Map of Tyrol taken from Giovanni Marieni’s rare work *Atlas of Modern Geography*, published in Milan in 1833 by the Imperial and Royal Printing Office. The map depicts the vast Alpine territory of historic Tyrol and the Vorarlberg region, then an integral part of the Austrian Empire. The drawing effectively highlights the mountainous structure of the Alps, rendered through refined orographic hatching that lends depth and relief to the landscape. The main valleys, river courses,…
- Dimension: 31 x 42 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1833
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This elegant “Corografia della Provincia di Verona,” published in 1880 by Premiata Litografia Penuti, is an excellent example of late-19th-century administrative and territorial cartography, a period when geometric precision began to merge with high-quality editorial aesthetics. The map stands out for its highly striking orographic representation, where the Monte Baldo massif and the Lessinia plateau are rendered through dense, meticulous shading that lends a three-dimensional quality to the relief, allowing the side valleys and the…
- Dimension: 50 x 38 cm
- Place of publication: Verona
- Year: 1880
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A fascinating historical map by Abraham Ortelius depicting the Indian Ocean (here referred to as the Erythraeum vel Rubrum Mare), understood in its classical sense: a vast basin stretching from the eastern coasts of Africa to the mysterious reaches of Southeast Asia. Published in the 1624 edition of the Parergon—Ortelius’s famous historical atlas—and printed in Antwerp at the prestigious printing house of Balthasar Moretus, the map stands as a true geographical and literary masterpiece: not…
- Dimension: 36,5 x 46,5 cm
- Place of publication: Antwerp
- Year: 1624
