Italy & Malta

This map of the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia and Valetta was published by the SDUK The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in...

This map of Turin was published by the SDUK. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of maki...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 21 x 25.5 cm, original hand-colour, on a folio leaf 37 x 29 cm, blank verso.

At the foot of this map are architectural elevations of some of Rome’s most famous post-classical buildings, dominated by St Peter’s. Rome was then...

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

Carte de l’Italie, dans laquelle sont tracées les Routes des Postes This is a later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map of Italy, showing the Ve...

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...