Italy & Malta

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 23 x 24.5 cm, black and white as issued, blank verso. Stadtplan of Napoleonic Venice.

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 27.5 x 37 cm, black and white, blank verso. Map showing the Duchy of Mantua.

Two English printers dipped a toe in the vernacular atlas market at approximately the same time with pocket editions of the Ortelius atlas: ‘These ...

Pianta del Nuovo Aquedotto che conduce l’acqua a Civita Vechia fabricato in parte sopra le ruuine dell’ antico construtto da Traiano Imperatore Thi...

Tavola Esatta dell’antico Latio e Nova Campagna di Roma, situata sotto il quinto Clima […] Prepared by papal cartographer Innocenzo Mattaei circa 1...

Busca, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased...