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967 [Extremely Rare Contemporary Colour] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
Tabula VI Euro. Strassburg, Johannes Grüninger, 1525. Contemporary body colour. Woodcut, printed area 275 x 420mm. Very good condition except for a few worm holes.
The Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller's maps of Ptolemiac Italy, in fine contemporary body colour. Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new "Chronica mundi" being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved, so the woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography'. On the verso is a Latin text surrounded by ornate woodcut borders. See BORRI: 18 for first edition.
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968 [Extremely Rare Contemporary Colour] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
[Untitled 'Modern' Italy]. Strassburg, Johannes Grüninger, 1525. Contemporary body colour. Woodcut, printed area 270 x 335mm. Very good condition except for few worm holes.
The Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller's map of 'modern' Italy, in fine contemporary body colour. Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new "Chronica mundi" being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved, so the woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography'. This edition of the 'modern' map is the only one without a banderole title. On the verso is a Latin text surrounded by ornate woodcut borders. See BORRI: 19 for first edition.
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969 [Ptolemaic Italy] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Tabula Italiae. Basle, c.1552. Latin text edition. Coloured. Woodcut, image size 280 x 350mm.
Munster's Ptolemaic map of Italy, within a trapezoid border, not published in the 'Cosmography', but in an edition of Strabo, accounting for the different title.
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970 [Italy] DE WIT, Frederick.
Tabula Italiae Corsicae, Sardaniae, et adjacentium Regnorum. Amsterdam c.1680, original colour, 450 x 545mm.
Showing Italy, Sardinia and Corsica, with parts of Sicily, Albania and Croatia. The borders and provinces of Italy delineated in original colour, the Mediterranian decorated with various vessels and a whale. The title contained in a cartouche at the top right hand corner, surmounted by a figure of Faith in a Papal tiara and flanked by Sts Peter and Paul .
£500

971 ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Italiae Novissima Descriptio Auctore Jacobo Castaldo Pedemontano. Antwerp, 1612, Italian text edition. Coloured. 360 x 510mm.
Italy, after Giacomo Gastaldi, filled with decorative detail, including a large vignette of a merman and mermaid and a sphinx on the scale cartouche. This example is printed from the second of two plates: introduced in 1585, it has the mer-couple in a far less intimate embrace than the original. VAN DEN BROECKE: 118.
£1,100

972 [Uncommon Wall-map] HEYMANN, Ignazio.
Italia con tutte li grande e picciole Sovranta e Republicha. Trieste: Ignazio Heymann, 1799; engraving on four uncut sheet, platemarks approximately 560 x 530mm, in original outline colour.A good example.
Scarce four sheet wall-map of Italy, the map engraved on a decorative banner background, the key within a stone pediment with vignette scene of Romulus and Remus. Borrri: L'Italia, 250 (ill.): giving the map 8 out 10 for rarity.
£1,500

973 [Ancient Italy] HONDIUS, Henricus.
Viro Antiqua domo Generoso ac Nobile... Amsterdam, 1639, French text edition. Original colour. 365 x 495mm. Centrefold reinforced.
Decorative map of ancient Italy, based on Cluver. KOEMAN: Me 93a.
£500

974 [Two-Sheet Map of Italy] DE ROSSI, Domenico.
Innocentio XII, Pontifici Maximo Optimo. Italia Ecclesiastica In suas Viginti distincta Provincias Sive Italiæ Episcopales Ecclesiæ... Rome, 1691. Two sheets conjoined, total 550 x 835mm. Trimmed into printed border on right, false margin added with mss. fill.
Map of ecclesiastical Italy, engraved by Antonio Barbey after the Augustine Father Lubin. Domenico De Rossi took over the family business after the death of his father, Giovanni Giacomo, the year of publication of this map. BORRI: 136,
£1,280

975 JANSSON, Jan.
Italiæ Antiquæ Nova Delinatio. Auctore Phil Cluvero. Amsterdam, c.1690, no text. 390 x 505mm.
Classical Italy, from the Jansson/Hornius Atlas of the Ancient World, with a fine title cartouche.
£400

976 [Ptolemaic Italy] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Tab. VI. Europæ, totam Italiam ob oculos ponens. Utrecht, François Halma, c.1695. Coloured. 345 x 470mm.
First published 1578, this map comes from Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography', with the maps updated to Mercator's Projection. This example is of the second state, with a new title cartouche replacing the original strapwork one.
£900

977 [Uncommon Miniature Map of Italy] MULLER, Johann Ulrich.
Italia. Ulm: Georg W. Kühnen, 1702. 70 x 80mm, set in text.
Charming miniature map, with a letterpress text in German. KING: Miniature Maps, 160-1.
£160

978 CLUVER, Philip.
Italia Antiqua. Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 270 x 325mm.
A decorative map of classical Italy.
£200

979 CLUVER, Philip.
Tabula Italiæ Antiquæ in Regiones XI ab Augusto divisæ. Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 395 x 490mm.
Roman Italy, as divided by Cæsar Augustus.
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980 SEUTTER, George Matthäus.
Nova Totius Italiæ cum adjacentibus Majoribus et Minoribus Insulis... Augsburg, c.1740. Original wash colour with additions. 490 x 570mm. A few small repairs.
With a fine cartouche featuring the Virgin Mary and the Classical gods. BORRI: 186.
£450

981 JANVIER, Jean.
L'Italie divisée en ses Differents Etats, Royaumes et Republiques. Paris, Jean Lattré, c.1760. Original outline colour. 310 x 460mm.
With a decorative title cartouche.
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982
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983 [North Italy] CLUVER, Philip.
Italiæ Gallicæ sive Galliæ Cisalpinæ... Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 205 x 260mm.
Northern Italy in Classical times.
£100

984 TALLIS, John.
Northern Italy. London, J. & F. Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Printed area 250 x 320mm. Ink pagination in margins.
From one of the last decorative atlases, map showing Northern Italy and Corsica. With decorative printed border and vignettes showing St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome and local scenes.
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985
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986 [Parma & Piacenza] JANSSON, Jan.
Ducato di Parma et Piacenzo. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 385 x 490mm.
With a decorative title cartouche. Published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.
£290

987 [Friuli] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Forum Iulium, Karstia, Carnola, Histria et Windorum Marchia. Amsterdam, 1609, French Edition. Original colour. 350 x 470mm. Some restoration at centrefold.
Friuli in Italy, with parts of Slovenia and Croatia. KOEMAN: Me 19.
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988
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989
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990 [Port-Ercole] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Plan de Port-Hercule. Paris, c.1760. Coloured. 230 x 180mm.
Port Ercole in Liguria.
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991 [A Spectacular Map of Liguria & Genoa] LOTTER, Tobias Conrad.
Lo Stato della Repubblica di Genova .. Augsburg, c.1770. Original wash colour. 480 x 575mm. Excellent condition.
Map with panoramic view of Genoa along the bottom, a very elaborate title cartouche in the middle and an inset plan of the city top left. .
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992 [Prospect of Genova] WERNER, F.B.
Genua. Augsburg, Heirs of Jeremias Wolff, c.1725. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 360 x 1020mm. A few small repairs to folds.
A fine prospect of the city with a 57-point key. Originally published by Wolff, the publication line marks this example as published by his heirs. Johann Friedrich Probst took over Wolff's business, but as he had yet to become famous in his own right he left Wolff's name on the plate.
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993 [Genova] KILIAN, George Christophe.
Genva. Augsburg, c.1750. 155 x 185mm. Trimmed to image on all sides.
Unusual prospect of Genova, with a 34-point key. The engraving style is of a century earlier.
£250

994 [Siege of Genoa] BEAULIEU, Sébastian de Pontault.
.    Les Attaques de la ville de Gennes, et du Fauxbourg de St Pierre d' Arene, par l'Armée Navale du Roy, commandee par le Marquis du Quesne, le 24 May 1684 . C. Berey, Paris, c.1694, 450 x 540mm Excellent condition with extra wide margins.
From Beaulieu's atlas "Les Glorieuses Conquestes de Louis le Grand". A very attractive view of the successful maritime siege of Genoa by the French forces in 1684, showing a wide variety of contemporary ships engaged in combat in front of a panoramic view of Genoa.
£1,250

995 [Lombardy] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Ducatus Mediolalensis, Finitimarumq. Regionu. Descriptio, Auctore Joanne Georgio Septala. Mediolanense. Antwerp, 1589?, German text edition. Original colour. 360 x 480mm.
North-west Italy, showing Genova, Cremona Parma & Milan, and north up to Geneva. VAN DEN BROECKE: 125.
£600

996 [Brescia] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Bresciano. Antwerp, J.B.Vrients, 1602, Italian edition. 80 x 110mm.
Ortelius's map of Brescia, reduced by by Philip for the 'Epitome' atlas.
£160

997
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998
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999
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1000 [Milan] WOLFF, Jeremias.
Meyland. Augsburg, Heirs of Jeremias Wolff, c.1725. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 355 x 1005mm.
A fine prospect of the city with a 63-point key. Originally published by Wolff, the publication line marks this example as published by his heirs. Johann Friedrich Probst took over Wolff's business, but as he had yet to become famous in his own right he left Wolff's name on the plate.
£3,850

1001 [One of the earliest townplans of Milan] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Mediolanum. Cologne, 1572-, Latin text edition.  Coloured. 335 x 480 mm.
From Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum',  the first series of printed townplans.
£750

1002 [Piedmont] GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Paimonte Nova Tav. Venice, G.B.Pedrezano, 1548. 130 x 175mm. Minor restoration to centrefold split.
Gastaldi's 'modern' map of Piedmonte, published in Gastaldi's 'Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino', one issue only, therefore rare.
£340

1003 RUSCELLI, Girolamo.
Tavola Nuova di Piemonte. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562, Latin edition. 195 x 260mm.
Engraved by Sanuto for Ruscelli's 'La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo'. A feature of this first state is that the platemark runs off the top of the sheet: two maps were printed from the same plate then the resulting sheet cut in half.
£300

1004 [Piedmont & Liguria]ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Pedmontanae Vicinorumque Regionum Auctore Iacobo Castaldo Descrip. Antwerp, 1595. Latin edition. Original colour. 365 x 500mm.
Piedmont & Liguria, marking Turin, Milan, Genova & Monaco, first published 1570 in the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. VAN DEN BROECKE: 128
£600

1005 [Piedmont & Savoy] NOLIN, Jean Baptiste.
Les Etats de Savoye et de Piemont... Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, c.1705. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 790 x 635mm. Narrow right margin..
A large and decorative map from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau', with fine baroque title cartouches, inset plans of Turin and Verceil, and a view of the fortress of Verrve. KOEMAN: Mor 1.
£1,200

1006 [Siena] BLAEU, Johannes.
Territorio di Siena et Ducato di Castro. Amsterdam, c.1640, French edition. Original colour. 385 x 505mm.
Sienna, with the islands of Elba, Pianosa and Monte Christo.
£350

1007
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1008 [Toscana] JANSSON, Jan.
Nova & accurata Tusciæ Antiquæ Descriptio. Auctore Ab. Ortelio. Amsterdam, c.1700. Coloured. 350 x 490mm.
Map of Ancient Tuscany, engraved by Pieter van den Keere, published in Jansson's 'Accuratissima Orbis Antiqui Delineatio'.
£250

1009 [Toscana] MORTIER, Pieter.
Estats de l'Eglise et de Toscane... Amsterdam, c.1705. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 600 x 670mm.
A large and decorative map of central Italy. Although it was published in Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau', it is a new map by Mortier after Sanson. KOEMAN: Mor 1; PASTEREAU: Jaillot If, 327.
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1010 [Siena] VALEGIO, Francesco.
Siena. Padua, Lasor a Varea, 1713. 85 x 120mm, set in a page of text.
Townplan of Siena, first published in the early 1600s.
£225

1011 CLUVER, Philip.
Etruriæ Latii Umbriæ Piceni Sabinorum et Marsorum Vetus et Nova Descriptio Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 210 x 260mm.
Etruria (modern Tuscany) with decorative cartouche.
£150

1012 [Incunable Prospect of Pisa] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Pisa. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, Latin text edition. Coloured. Woodcut, image 195 x 220mm, set in a page of text.
An imaginary view of Pisa from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'.
£240

1013 [Treviso] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Treviso. Venice, c.1710, 125 x 162mm .
A view of Treviso, its moated fortifications and towers. With a coach and horses in the foreground. From Coronelli's "Singolarita di Venezia e del serenissimo suo dominio", published in 1710
 

1014 [Trento] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Tridentum. Triesta. Cologne, 1581-, Latin text edition. Coloured. 350 x 470mm.
Early 'map-view' of Trento, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans. The major buildings shown in profile, with little consideration for perspective.
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1015 [Veneto] GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Marcha Trevisiana Nova Tavola. Venice, G.B.Pedrezano, 1548. 130 x 175mm.
Gastaldi's 'modern' map of Veneto & Treviso, published in Gastaldi's 'Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino', one issue only, therefore rare.
£230

1016 [Incunable Prospect of Venice] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Venicie. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, German text edition. Woodcut, image 190 x 530mm, set in a page of text.
Prospect of Venice from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. Some of the town views in the Chronicle are pure fiction, especially those furthest from Nuremberg, but here features such as the tower of St Mark's are depicted, although not accurately. On verso is a prospect of Padua and several portraits. MORETTO: 6
£2,000

1017
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1018 [Two-Sheet Prospect of Venice] JANSSON, Jan.
Celeberrima Urbs Venetiæ. Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1729. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 410 x 1020mm.
Originally published in Jansson's Townbooks in 1657, and then by de Wit in the 1680's, this example comes from van der Aa's 'La Galerie agréable du Mond'. This state has a new title cartouche, a few new boats and changes to the Fondamente Nouve and Arsenal. MORETTO: Venice 145 (and 81 for Jansson's version).
£4,500

1019 [Large plan of Venice] UGHI, Ludovico.
Nuova Pianta dell'Inclita Citta di Venezia Regolata l'Anno 1787. Venice, Ludovico Furlanetto, 1787. Some old colour. 515 x 680mm, with separately printed key pasted underneath. Laid on linen.
A reduction of Ughi's 8-sheet map of 1725, this version first published in 1747. This is an example of the second state, with a title and date added in the scale cartouche, and a grid engraved over the map, referred to by the extensive key printed on a separate sheet and attached under the map. There are three more states known, the last in 1829. MORETTI: Venetia, 188, state 2 of 5.
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1020 [Early Plan of Venice] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Contrasehtung der fürnemen Statt Venedig /sampt den umbligenden Inseln. Basle, H. Petri, c.1560, German edition. Coloured. Woodcut, image size 270 x 385mm. Narrow lateral margins
Decorative bird's-eye view of Venice, derived from the Bordone map. MORETTI: 13
£600
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1021 [Southern Italy] CLUVER, Philip.
Campaniæ Samnii Apullæ Lucaniæ Brutiorum Vetus et Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 260 x 220mm.
Southern Italy with a decorative title cartouche.
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1022 [Chart of Sicily] SMYTH, William Henry.
Sicily, Scmettau's Map Corrected to the Points and Coast Survey of Captain W. H. Smyth, R.A, Knight of S. Ferdinand & Merit. London, Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, c. 1824. 475 x 630 mm. Narrow bottom margin.
A detailed chart of Sicily. In 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic War, Lieut. Smyth was posted to Sicily, which he used as a base to survey the coasts of Italy and Africa, with the islands in between. 32 charts and views were published by the Admiralty, which remained the core hydrography of the central Mediterranean until the end of the century. He published his own account, "Memoir descriptive of the resources, inhabitants, and hydrography of Sicily and its islands...", in 1824. His final naval rank was admiral.
£700

1023 [The "Scylla and Charybdis" of the Odyssey] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Prospectus Freti Siculi vulgo il Faro de Messina. Cologne, 1617, Latin text edition. Coloured. 305 x 475mm..
A 'map-view' of the Strait of Messina, from a sketch by Hofnagle, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first atlas of printed town plans. This dangerous waterway is associated with Scylla and Charybdis, the monster on one shore and the whirlpool (still extant) near the other, that Odysseus had to pass. In the background is the volcano, Mount Etna.Being published in the last volume of the 'Citivates', this is one of the more uncommon plates. KOEMAN: B&H 6..
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1024 [Rare Four Sheet Plan Of Classical Rome] SANDRART, Joachim von
Der Statt Rom Grundris und Vorstellung, wie der zeit alle alte Rvinen, samt neven Gebeven, Kirchen und Palatien. [Nuremberg?:] Joachim von Sandrart, 1677, black and white, on four sheets joined, totalling 640 x 845mm. Minor restoration at the one of the folds.
Very scarce German derivative of Giovanni Falda's four-sheet plan of Rome reconstructing the appearance of the city in classical times, with two extensive keys listing 254 of the principal buildings. The plan, or birds-eye perspective view, was engraved by Johann Meyer, from Basle in Switzerland.
Neither Sandrart or Meyer are listed in Tooley's 'Dictionary of Mapmakers'.Despite having been folded into a small formt, thi is a nice example of the  plan, and a good dark impression.
£2,400

1025 [Incunable Prospect of Rome] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Roma. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, Latin text edition. Woodcut, image 230 x 530mm, set in a page of text. A little restoration at centrefold.
Rome, one of the double-page prospects in the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. Although not completely accurate, features such as the Castel de San Angelo, the Vatican, Colosseum and Pantheon are represented. On verso is a view of Genova.
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1026 [Rome] TEMPESTA, Antonio.
Roma. Frankfurt, Merian c.1650. Two sheets conjoined, total 310 x 715mm.
Tempesta, a Florentine painter and engraver, produced his monumental map of Rome in 1593. Engraved on 12 folio sheets it measured one metre by nearly 2.5 when pasted together. His view of the city was elongated to fit into his 2 by 6 sheet format. This reduction was published in Merian's 'Theatrum Europeum'
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1027 [Rome] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Plan of Modern Rome. London, Baldwin & Cradock, 1830. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, 320 x 400mm.
Townplan, with elevations of important buildings under the map.
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1028 [Ancona] ROUX, Joseph.
[La Ville d'Ancone.] Paris, 1764. 142 x 220mm.
Ancona, published in Roux's 'Plans et Rades de la Méditerraneé'.
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1029 [Taranto] ROUX, Joseph.
[Port de Tarante.] Published 1764. 135 x 210mm. Stitch holes in left margin.
Plan of Taranto in Southern Italy.
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1030

[Very Decorative Sicily & Sardinia] HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Regnorum Siciliæ et Sardiniæ nec non Melitæ seu Maltæ Insula cum adjectis Italiæ et Africæ Litoribus. Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour. 495 x 580mm.
Sicily, Sardinia and Malta, with insets plans of Valetta and Catania. Part of the large allegorical title cartouche shows the forge of the Cyclops, supposedly located in the crater of Mount Etna. Heraldic shield, inset plans of Catania and Valletta, and sailing ships.


£620

1031 [A detailed 18th C. Map of Sardinia] HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Sardiniæ Regnum et Insula uti per celeberr P. Coronelli Reip. Venetae. Nuremberg, c.1750. Original Wash Colour. 580 x 485mm.
Sardinia, after the Venetian cartographer Coronelli. Bottom right is an inset plan of Cagliari.
£650

1032 [Calaris] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Calaris. Cologne, 1572-. 160 x 230mm. Trimmed to printed border on right and bottom.
An early 'map-view', with the major buildings shown in profile with little consideration for perspective.
£185

1033 [Sicily] JANSSON, Jan.
Siciliæ Veteris Typus. Amsterdam, c.1700. 385 x 490mm.
Map of Ancient Sicily, engraved by Abraham Goos, published in Jansson's 'Accuratissima Orbis Antiqui Delineatio'. With inset map of Syracuse, and a list of towns.
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1034 [A Gorgeus Map of Sicily] LOTTER, Tobias Conrad.
Mappa Geographica totius Insulae et Regni Siciliae... Augsburg, c.1770. Original wash colour. 500 x 585mm. Excellent condition.
Fine title cartouche top left, a large inset bottom left showing the Islands of Malta and Gozo with title in french; compass rose and several ships.
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1035 [Ancient Sicily] SEALE, Richard William.
Sicilia Antiqua. London, c.1750. Coloured. 215 x 310mm.
Map of ancient Sicily, with an inset map showing the island, Malta & Gozo and the coast of Africa with Carthage.
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1036
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1037 [Perugia] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Perusia Gratumusis in Tuscia Domicilium Cologne, 1588-, Latin text edition. 365 x 440mm.
Early 'map-view' of Perugia, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans. The major buildings shown in profile, with little consideration for perspective.
£650

1038 [Palermo] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Palermo. Cologne, c.1588, Latin text edition. Coloured. 330 x 500mm. The top left corner of the printing plate has been snapped off.
A 'map-view' of Palermo, with the major buildings shown in profile, and an extensive key in Italian underneath, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first atlas of printed town plans. It is a faithful copy of the plan by Prester Horatio Maioc, engraved by Claudio Duchetti in Rome, 1580: even the compass rose cardinals have the Italian abbreviations. KOEMAN: B&H 4; see NOVACCO: Cartografia Rara, map 95 for the original.
£980

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