Italy & Malta

Cutting A Fine Figure Speed’s 'carte à figure' of Italy features eight costume vignettes and six city views around the edges, with the coats of arm...

This map of Italy was published in Nicholas Tindal's continuation of Rapin de Thoyras's "History of England"; many of the maps illustrating the wor...

Come for the Stone Age remains, stay for the rawhide Lithographed map sheet, 44.5 x 61 cm, printed in colours on stiff paper, blank verso, a visual...

Carmagnolia Copper engraving, 43.5 x 58.5 cm, black and white, blank verso. Map of Carmagnola, just south of Turin in Piedmont, was fought over and...

Exigua & celeberrima Verruca […] Copper engraving, 43.5 x 62 cm, black and white, blank verso. Map of Verrua Savoia, north east of Turin in Pie...

Villa Nova dell’ Astegiana Copper engraving, 46.5 x 59 cm, black and white, blank verso. Map of Villanova d’Asti, Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Sav...

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

Demontium Copper engraving, 46.5 x 62 cm, engraved by Juvenal Boetto, black and white, blank verso. Map of Demonte in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of...

Siciliae Descriptio Copper engraving, 7.5 x 11 cm, black and white, Latin text on verso. Map of Sicily, from the second series of maps engraved by ...

Typus Regni Neapolitani Copper engraving, 8.3 x 12.4 cm, black and white, Latin text on verso. Map of the Kingdom of Naples, from the second series...

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...

Carte geographique d’Italie avec ses dernières divisions Politiques et la trace des dernières Campagnes militaires This particular map charts the F...

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

Revellum Revello, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates wer...

Ormea Lat. Ulmeta Ormea, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the pla...

Cartusia Vallis Pisii, fundata 1173 The Charterhouse of Pesio, a Carthusian foundation near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmo...

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...

Map of the Island of Malta. Prepared in the Royal Engineers Office, Malta. In the 1920s Valletta was the location of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean...

Copper engraving, sheet size 49.5 x 30 cm, map 18 x 24 cm, modern hand colour, set within Latin text with further text on verso. A map of the Ital...

Vesuvius Mons Neapoleos Copper engraving, 21.5 x 33 cm, black and white, blank verso. The major eruption of Vesuvius in December 1631, published by...

Forum Vulcani vocavit antiquitas locum in agro Puteolano quem hodie vulgo la Solfatara appellant. Copper engraving, 18.5 x 29 cm, black and white, ...

Ostia Copper engraving, 19.5 x 31.5 cm, black and white, blank verso. A plan of Ostia, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, includin...

Piacenza Copper engraving, 22 x 35 cm, black and white, blank verso. A plan of Piacenza, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, includ...

Ancona Copper engraving, 22 x 35 cm, black and white, trivial marginal spotting and worming, not affecting the printed area, blank verso. A plan of...

Mantova Copper engraving, 25 x 35 cm, black and white, slight spotting, blank verso. A plan of Mantua, published by Merian and his heirs in various...

Genua Copper engraving, 21 x 39.5 cm, black and white, slight spotting, blank verso. A plan of Genoa, published by Merian and his heirs in various ...

Nova Palma Copper engraving, 22 x 32 cm, black and white, slight spotting, blank verso. A plan of Palmanova (a Venetian town founded in 1593, shelt...

Lauretum Copper engraving, 22 x 34.5 cm, black and white, blank verso. A plan of Loreto (site of the Basilica della Santa Casa), published by Meria...

Pavia Copper engraving, 22 x 34.5 cm, black and white, blank verso. A plan of Pavia (the ancient Ticinum), published by Merian and his heirs in var...

Neapolis Copper engraving, 27.5 x 35.5 cm, black and white, blank verso. A plan of Naples, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, incl...

Messina Copper engraving, 20.5 x 35 cm, black and white, blank verso. A plan of Messina, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, includ...

Florentia Copper engraving, 23.5 x 34 cm, black and white, blank verso. A plan of Florence, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, inc...

Elba Isola, olim Ilva. Copper engraving, sheet size 49.5 x 30 cm, map 20 x 25.5 cm, modern hand colour, set within Latin text with further text on ...

Carte Generale d’Italie et des isles adjacentes Copper engraving, 16.3 x 22.2 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. This map of Italy i...

Il Lazio, con le sue piu cospicue Strade Antiche e Moderne… Latium cum omnibus suis celebrioribus viis quo ad Antiquum & novuum Statum… Copper...

Stato di Milano Copper engraving, 41.5 x 54 cm, original hand-colour, towns heightened in gold, closed tears and minor restorations to lower margin...

La Savoia divisa nelle sue Principali Provincie da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola [….] Two copper engraved map-sheets, platemarks each approx. 42 x 57...

Dominio Veneto nell’ Italia Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cm, original hand-colour, browning and spotting, Latin text on verso; map of the Venetian t...

Isle de Sicile Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.2 cm, modern hand colour, French text on verso; a map of Sicily, from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers,...

Italie Copper engraving, 15.2 x 10.5 cm, modern hand colour, French text on verso; a map of Italy, from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first pu...

Putioli [with] Baiae Copper engraving, 29.5 x 49 cm, fine original hand-colour, German text on verso. Views of two towns on the Bay of Naples, Pozz...

Parma [with] Siena [and] Palermo [and] Drepanum Copper engraving, 37 x 47.5 cm. fine original hand colour, a couple of trivial spots and stains, Ge...

Gallipoli Copper engraving, 20 x 27 cm, black and white, trivial spotting, blank verso. A map of Gallipoli in Apulia, published by Merian and his h...

Rome Ancienne Copper engraving, 15 x 11 cm, black and white, French text on verso, plan of ancient Rome from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, fir...

Ligures, Taurini etc, item Rhaetiae pars. Copper engraving, 12 x 12.5 cm, black and white, light waterstain bottom right, blank verso; map of Ligur...

Parma Steel engraving, 33 x 38 cm, original hand colour, with black and white panoramic view of Parma at the foot, blank verso. The Society for the...