Italy & Malta

This 'carte à figure' map of Italy includes eight costume vignettes and six city views around the edges, with the coats of arms of Corsica and Sard...

This is one of the earliest obtainable views of Venice, derived from a larger woodcut by Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, which was published in the fi...

This is one of the earliest obtainable views of Florence, derived from a lost engraving by Francesco Rosselli. The woodcuts were created in the wor...

Plan Des Antiquitez De Rome, Représentées Et Distinguées Suivant La Situation De Chacun De Ses Anciens Monuments / Roma Vetus This map of Rome is a...

Pierre Mortier acquired the copper printing-plates for Blaeu's great town books of Italy, which were originally published from the 1660s onwards, a...

Come for the Stone Age remains, stay for the rawhide... This simplified map of Malta and Gozo is surrounded by views, statistics and historical inf...

Carmagnola, just south of Turin in Piedmont, was fought over and extensively remodelled in the mid seventeenth-century; it was briefly recaptured b...

Exigua & celeberrima Verruca […] This is a map of Verrua Savoia, north east of Turin in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was fi...

Villa Nova dell’ Astegiana This is a map of Villanova d’Asti, in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu ...

Fons Herculeus: Cum Suis Colosso, Cryptoporticu, Antris, Sacellis, Scalis, Dioetis, Tricliniis, Statuis, Signis, Tabulis, Coeterisque Musivis, ac m...

Rumiliacum vulgo Rumilly Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and r...

This map of Demonte in Piedmont was engraved by Juvenal Boetto. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 16...

This map of Sicily is from the second series of maps engraved by Philip Galle for the Epitome, the pocket atlas version of Ortelius’ Theatrum. Cond...

Typus Regni Neapolitani This map of the Kingdom of Naples is from the second series of maps engraved by Philip Galle for the Epitome, the pocket at...

Carta de’ Contorni di Napoli, costrutta ed eseguita, sui piu recenti ed esatti materiali da Benedetto Marzolla, con tutte le strade postali, rotabi...

L’Italie qui comprend les Etats de Piémont, les Duchés de Milan, de Parme, de Modene, de Mantoue etc., les Républiques de Genes, de Venise, de Luqu...

Camaldulensium, nondum omnino absoluta ad Lancei oppidum eremus This is the Camaldolese hermitage near Lanzo Torinese in Piedmont (which is visible...

This is a map of Revello, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the pl...

This is a map of Ormea, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plat...

Cartusia Vallis Pisii, fundata 1173 This is the Charterhouse of Pesio, a Carthusian foundation near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy an...

Partie Septentrionale du Royaume de Naples This is a later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the northern part of the Kingdom of Naples. The ori...

Etat de l’Eglise, Grand Duché de Toscane, et Isle de Corse This is a later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Papal States, Tuscany and Corsi...

In the 1920s Valletta was the location of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet's headquarters. Prepared on the island, this map of Malta has a grid...

This is a map of the Italian island of Sardinia, oriented with north to the left of the map. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, sheet size...

This view shows the major eruption of Vesuvius in December 1631, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Ital...

This is a view of the Solfatara volcanic crater, mythological home of Vulcan in the Phlegraean Fields at Pozzuoli, near Naples. It was published by...

This plan of of Ostia was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640, the Archontologia cosmica ...

This plan of Piacenza was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640, the Archontologia cosmica ...

This plan of Mantua was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum ...

This plan of Genoa was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum E...

This plan of Palmanova (a Venetian town founded in 1593, sheltered behind innovative fortifications taking the form of a nine-pointed star) was pub...

This plan of Loreto (site of the Basilica della Santa Casa) was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Itali...

This plan of Pavia (the ancient Ticinum) was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and edit...

This plan of Naples was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum ...

This plan of Messina was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum...

This plan of Florence was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatru...

This is the Tuscan island of Elba, a map newly added to the ‘Atlas Novus’ in 1640. Koeman records that it was first published in the French text ed...

This map of Italy is coloured to show the Papal States, Kingdom of Naples, the Venetian and Genoese Republics etc, and is flanked by a chronologica...

This map of Milan shows towns heightened in gold. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 41.5 x 54 cm, original hand-colour, closed tears, min...

La Savoia divisa nelle sue Principali Provincie da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola [….] This is a map of Savoy from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and...

This map of Sicily is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the foll...

This map of Italy is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the follo...

Views of two towns on the Bay of Naples, Pozzuoli and Baia, are here presented on one sheet. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most signi...

Views of four towns are here presented on one sheet: Parma and Siena, and Palermo and Trapini in Sicily. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of th...

This map of Gallipoli in Apulia was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640, the Archontologi...

Rome Ancienne This plan of ancient Rome is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text ...

Ligures, Taurini etc, item Rhaetiae pars Clüver is regarded as one of the founders of historical geography; his Introductionis in universam geograp...

This map includes a panoramic view of Parma at its foot, blank. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high...