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The very rare card showing the card number 8 of Lombardy in northern Italy (Pavia, Voghera, Varzo, Bobbio, Serravalle Scrivia, Tortona, Alessandria e Lumello) providing some geographical information on rivers, lakes and towns (and their distance in miles to Rome). Published by Nicholas De Poilly in Paris in 1763. A collector’s items.
From a pack of playing cards where the value of each card is indicated by the number of towns on it, and each suit by the colour. The court cards, bearing heads of kings, queens and knaves, have statistical details inside a panel of hanging drapery. (see other similar items in my store). Cfr. British Museum 1906,0723.36.1-51- Year: 1763
- Dimension: 60 x 80 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
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Interesting town plan of the walled city of Mortara from the rare Schauplatz des Krieges In Italien, Oder Accurate Beschreibung der Lombardey by Thomas Fritschen published in Leipzig in 1702.
- Year: 1702
- Dimension: 70 x 130 mm
- Place of publication: Lipsia
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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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Very fine plan of Pavia on Ticino river. In the upper right a legend with 20 point of interest. 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.
- Year: 1640
- Dimension: 340 x 217 mm
- Place of publication: Frankfurt
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Interesting town plan of the walled city of Vigevano from the rare Schauplatz des Krieges In Italien, Oder Accurate Beschreibung der Lombardey by Thomas Fritschen published in Leipzig in 1702.
- Year: 1702
- Dimension: 70 x 130 mm
- Place of publication: Lipsia
