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512 [Prospect of Algiers] PRULAUD, Antonio.
Prospetto della Città, e Porto di Algeri con tutte le sue Fortificazioni nuovamente costruite a tutto Maggio 1784. Livorno: Giovanni & Domenico del Negro, c.1785. 310 x 460mm.
Prospect of Algiers, showing the new defences, built in 1784. As the city was the base of the Barbary pirates, a curse on Mediterranean shipping, these new defences would have been to protect against European attack. Engraved by Bartolemeo Nerici.
£350

791 [Amsterdam] SENEX, John.
A New Map of the City of Amsterdam, Most Humbly Inscribed to John Hedworth, Esq. 1720. London, 1720. 495 x 585mm.
A fine townplan of Amsterdam, oriented with north at the bottom of the sheet. Engraved by Samuel Parker, it is superbly detailed, with a key of 268 streets.
£680

354 [Incunable Prospect of Babylon] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Babilonia seu Babilon. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1497. Latin text edition. Old mss. text highlighting. Woodcut, printed area 90 x 140mm, set in a page of text.
An imaginary view of Babylon, published in a small folio edition of the 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. Despite the eight editions (one possibly as late as 1604) fewer of these were printed than the Nuremberg original. A rare incunabule.
£125

749 [Berlin] PROBST, George Balthasar.
Berolinum. Berlin. Augsburg, c.1760. Early colour with additions. Two sheets conjoined, total 380 x 1020mm. Narrow margins, with some restoration.
A fine panorama of early C18th Paris, with a 62-point key in French and German.
£2,600

985 [Incunable Prospect of Bologna] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Bononia. Nuremberg, 1493, German text edition. Woodcut, image 200 x 230mm, set in a page of text.
An imaginary view of Bologna from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'.
£240

779 [Brussels] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Bruxella... Cologne, 1572-, Latin text edition. Coloured. 330 x 480mm. Printed to printed border, false margin added.
Early 'map-view' of Brussels, published for the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first atlas of printed town plans. The major buildings are shown in profile, with little consideration for perspective, with a 56-point key. KOEMAN: B&H 1.
£680

846 [Incunable Prospect of Buda] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Buda. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, Latin text edition. Woodcut, image 240 x 520mm. Minor restoration at centerfold as usual
A good example of this early woodcut of Buda, one of the double-page prospects from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'.
£1,300

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

955 [A broadsheet plan of Candia] BELGRANO, I.M.
Dissegno di Candia Attaccata dal Turco Sotto il Commando del Primo Visir et Diffesa dall' Ecc.mo Sig.r Marchese Villa, dal principio del Attacco li 24 Maggio 1667, sino li 21 Aprile 1668. Venice? c.1668. 370 x 495mm, with letterpress key underneath. Mis-print at top edge caused by a tear in the paper made before printing.
Scarce broadsheet plan, oriented with north to the bottom, engraved by Belgrano the year before the city finally fell to the Turks after a 24-year campaign.
£650

944 [City of Scio] CAMOCIO, Giovanni Francesco.
Citta di Scio. Venice, 1572. 170 x 225mm. Old ink mss. plate number in margin.
From Camocio's 'Isole famose, porti, fortezze, e terre maritime', first state (without plate number). Not in Zacharakis.
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945 [Scio] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Chios Maris Agæi eiusden nominiss Insulae Civitas. Cologne, 1588-, Latin text edition. Coloured. 325 x 470mm.
Published for the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first series of town plans. The major buildings are shown in profile, with no consideration for perspective. A galley is shown attacking the ships at anchor. KOEMAN: B&H 5.
£650

438 [Prospect of Constantinople] MERIAN, Mattheus.
Constantinoplis. Frankfurt, c.1650. Two sheets conjoined, as issued, total 230 x 690mm.
A fine dark impression of this detailed copper engraving prospect of Constantinople, with a 30-point key.
£1,200

949 [Corfu City] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Veduta della Fortezza Vecchia di Corfu verso Tramontana. Venice, c.1690. 110 x 270mm, set in a page of text.
View of the city of Corfu, with the title on a banner above.
£220

950 [Corfu City] MORTIER, Pieter.
Corfu ville dela Republique de Venise. Dans la Dalmatie. Amsterdam, c.1700. 400 x 500mm. Small printer's crease near centrefold.
A plan of the town and fortress of Corfu, with a 43-point key. Published in Mortier's edition of Blaeu's Townbooks, but as a new plate.
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921 [Dubrovnik] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Ragusi. Venice, c.1690. 130 x 165mm, set in text. Faint smear on printed area.
Dubrovnik. On verso is another plate, 'Pastrouicchi' (Petrovac in Montenegro?).
£180

678 [Unusual Prospect of Edinburgh] MEISNER, Daniel.
Edenburck in Schottl. Nuremberg: Paulus Furst, 1638. 100 x 150mm. A very fine and crisp example.
A very unusual view, copied from the Braun & Hogenberg view published 1572. However Meisner has added a cavalier-like figure, with swords hanging in his line of sight, a quote from Virgil, 'Vim Suscitat Ira, and more lines of verse in Latin & German. Neither the figure nor the text appear to have any connection with Edinburgh. Meisner's book of townplans originally appeared in 1623 with only 52 plates. In 1624-6 it was re-issued with 416, and again in 1638-42 with a new title, 'Sciographia', and 800 plates. This example comes from the last edition.
£230

888 [Famagusta] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Famagusta. Cologne, c.1600. Coloured. 160 x 230mm. Narrow margins as usual.
An early 'map-view', with the major buildings shown in profile with little consideration for perspective.
£250

750 [Frankfurt] JANSSON, Jan.
Sachsenhausen. Francofurtum. Franxkfurt. Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson van Waeseberg, 1682. 395 x 505mm. Trimmed to neatline and laid on old paper for a composite atlas.
A detailed townplan, with a 37-point key. Published in the second edition of Jansson's Townbooks. Although most of the plans were reissues of the Braun & Hogenberg plates, this is an original plan. KOEMAN: JA 18.
£1,400

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

351 [Scarce Townplan of Goa] JANSSON, Jan.
Goa Indiæ Orientalis Metropolis. Amsterdam, 1657, Latin text. Original colour. 330 x 460mm.
Rare townplan of Goa, published in Jansson's 'Townbooks'. While most of the plans were taken from the 'Civitatis Orbis Terrarum' by Braun & Hogenberg, this is a reduction of the plan from Linschoten's 'Itinerario'. KOEMAN: Ja 17.
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751 [Hamburg] HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Prospect und Grundriss der Keiserl. Freyen Reichs und Ansee Stadt Hamburg... Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour.. 490 x 575mm. Two small areas of paper weakness.
Hamburg with its environs, with an extensive key. Underneath is a prospect of the city, surrounded by allegorical figures.
£800

144 [First Printed Townplan of an American Settlement] RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.
La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia. Venice, 1606. Woodcut, printed area 275 x 360mm. Trimmed to printed borders left and bottom, remargined, a repaired tear.
Sailing up the St Lawrence River in 1534 Jacques Cartier reached the Huron-Iroquois settlement of Hochelaga, in an area he named Mont Real in tribute to the French king Francis 1. He descibed the settlement as about 50 bark-covered longhouses and tells that the Indians welcomed them, squatting in rows before them as if 'we were going to give a play.' Cartier was then called upon to heal the village's sick. Here the central plan is flanked top and bottom by diagrams of the balustrade showing the construction, with woods and cornfields around the village. The name Montreal makes its first appearance on a printed map. This is an example of the second of two blocks, cut in 1565 after the first block was destroyed by a fire in the printing house of Thomaso Guinti after only a year's use. The title is split by the map This 1606 edition is recognisable by the pagination numbers "380. 2º' and '380.3º', and evidence of woodworm damage to the printing block. KERSHAW: 16, plate 9.
£700

417 [Jerusalem] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Die heilege statt Jerusalem... Basle, c.1550. German text edition. Woodcut, image size 150 x 370mm, set in a page of text. A good dark impression.
Prospect of contemporary Jerusalem, with text beneath and on verso. LAOR: 1087.
£260

421 [Jerusalem] ADRICHOM, Christiaan van.
Ierusalem et suburbia eius, sicut tempore Christi floruit... Köln, Jodocus Henricus Kramer, 1682. Two sheets conjoined, total 520 x 750mm. Narrow margins, as issued.
Jerusalem at the time of Christ, published in Adrichom's 'Theatrum Terræ Sanctæ', with vignette scenes of his life. LAOR: 935.
£1,800

416 [Incunable Prospect of Jerusalem] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Destruccio Iherosolime. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, Latin edition. Woodcut, image 260 x 540mm, set in a page of text. A few small repairs to the centrefold, as usual.
An imaginary view of the Destruction of Jerusalem, with the Temple of Solomon on fire, from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. On verso are several more woodcut illustrations. LAOR: 1125, illus.
£1,400

752 [Köln.] JANSSON, Jan.
Colonia Agrippina. Cölln. Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson van Waeseberg, 1682. 390 x 500mm. Trimmed to neatline and laid on old paper for a composite atlas.
A detailed townplan, with two extensive keys. Published in the second edition of Jansson's Townbooks. Although most of the plans were reissues of the Braun & Hogenberg plates, this is an original plan. KOEMAN: JA 18.
£1,400

834 [Incunable Prospect of Krackow] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Cracovia. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, German text edition. Woodcut, image 255 x 520mm. Some restoration at centre, as usual.
Kracow, one of the double-page prospects from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'.
£780

782 [Liege] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Leodium. Leodii... Cologne, 1572-, Latin text. Coloured. 330 x 480mm.
'Map-view' of Liege, with the major buildings shown in profile, with little consideration for perspective and a 48-point key. In the foreground are three figures in period dress.
£380

1053 [Lisbon] HISS.
Lisabon, die Haubt-stadt des Königreichs Portugall... German, c.1720. 190 x 300mm. Some restoration at centrefold.
Prospect of Lisbon.
£450

1054 [Lisbon] SESONE, Fran.
Veduta della Città di Lisbona, dalla parte del Tago. Naples, c.1740. 165 x 330mm. Binding folds flattened.
A prospect of Lisbon, engraved by Sesone.
£200

1084 [Loja] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Loxa. Cologne, 1575-, Latin text edition. 355 x 495mm.
Loja, west of Granada, after Hofnagle, from Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans.
£325

623 [Broadsheet map of the Great Fire of London] VENCKEL, Jacob.
Platte Grondt der Verbrande Stadt London. Amsterdam: Jacob Venckel, 1667. 210 x 285mm, with letterpress text underneath. Narrow left margin.
A scarce broadsheet (i.e. issued loose) account of the Great Fire of London, published only a year after the event. The main map shows the extend of the destruction, with an inset prospect of the City in flames and a map showing the Hooke's plan for rebuilding the city. Under the map is an extensive Dutch text detailing the devastation. HOWGEGO: 24.
£1,900

625 [London] SEUTTER, George Matthäus.
Londinium celebrimma Metropolis, Splendidissima Regia et opulentissimum Angliæ Emporium... Augsburg, c.1720. Original colour. 505 x 585mm.
Colourful map of London, decorated with the Hanover Royal Arms and a prospect of the city underneath. Both the map and the prospect have extensive keys. HOWGEGO: 68.
£2,000

629 [Scarce Plan of London] FOSTER, George.
A New and exact Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster & the Borough of Southwark to this present year... London: Robert Sayer, 1778. Original outline colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 565 x 1020mm.
A large and detailed plan of London, decorated with inset prospect of London, and viewss of St James's Palace, the Queen's Palace, Westminster Abbey & St Paul's. Tables give a key for the wards, and rates for hackney coaches and watermen. Bottom right are the arms of 12 city compamies. HOWGEGO: 82, this state not listed.
£3,850

637 [London] WYLD, James.
Wyld's New Plan of London. London, c.1851. Original colour. Wood engraving, 560 x 940mm.
Detailed plan, originally issued to coincide with the Great Exhibition of 1851. HYDE: Printed Maps of Victorian London, 25.
£790

639 [Facsimilie of Morgan's Twelve Sheet Map of London] MORGAN, William.
London &.c. Actually Survey'd by Wm. Morgan, His Matie's Cosmogr. 1681/2. London: London Topographical Society, 1901. 12 sheets conjoined, total 1550 x 2200mm (c.5½ x 8 feet). Laid on linen.
A full-size facimilie of a massive map, on a scale of 300 feet to an inch, the largest to show London and the surrounding area until John Rocque's map of 1746. Around the map are elevations of government houses, a vignette scene of John Ogilby being presented to Charles II, and the title on a garland banner. Underneath is a prospect of London and Westminster by Robert Morden & Philip Lea. See Howgego: 33.
£3,200

635 [London] CREIGHTON, R.
A Plan of London and its Environs. London, 1831. Coloured. 350 x 470mm. Laid on paper
Steel-engraved town plan, engraved by J. & C. Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary. The first state, before any railways were added. Howgego: 330.
£460

636 [London with vignettes] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
London. London, Baldwin & Cradock, c.1836. Coloured. 400 x 650mm. Binding folds flattened.
Highly detailed double-page map, showing from Kensington Palace east to the Isle of Dogs, and the Oval north to Islington. The SDUK published two versions of this map: this is the more desirable, with two vignette views under the title, showing the Tower and London from Holloway. HOWGEGO: 354.
£550

626 [London] HOMANN HEIRS.
Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Suburbii Southwark accurata Ichnographia... 1736. Nuremberg, 1736. Original colour. Three sheets conjoined, total 520 x 1720mm.
A long town plan of London, showing from Grosvenor Square and Buckingham House in the west to Stepney Church in the east, Clerkenwell in the north and Southwark in the south. Many of the most important buildings are shown in profile. A large title cartouche with the Royal arms of George II completes this very striking map. This map often appears just as a two-sheet map. The right sheet here, half of which is taken up with a view of St James's Square and elevations of St Paul's, the Royal Exchange and the Custom House, appears to have been only included in a deluxe edition. HOWGEGO: 81.
£2,800

197 [Mexico City] MONTANUS, Arnoldus.
Vetus Mexico. London: John Ogilby, 1671. 295 x 355mm. Repaired tear in centrefold, just entering printed area.
View of Mexico City. This example comes from Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Montanus' 'De Nieuwe En Onbekende Weereld', published the same year by Meurs.
£280

999 [Incunable Prospect of Milan] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Mayland. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, German text edition. Woodcut, image 145 x 225mm, set in a page of text. Some old ink mss. marginalia, some faint age-spotting.
Prospect of MIlan from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. The sheet is decorated with several woodcut portraits, including Herodotus and Sophocles.
£220

525 [Mombasa, Aden & Quiloa] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Aden, Arabiæ Foeicis emporum celeberrimi nominis...; Mombaza; Quiloa; Cefala. Cologne, 1572-, Latin text edition. Coloured. 340 x 475mm. Old ink mss. in margins.
Four map-views on one sheet, published in the first volume of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first series of printed town plans. The views are of four of the most important ports in the Indian Ocean: the upper half of the sheet is dedicated to Aden, with Mombasa (Kenya), Kilwa (Tanzania) & Sofala (or Beira, Mozambique) underneath. KOEMAN: B&H 2.
£550

865 [Moscow] Anonymous.
Mosca. Italian, c.1790. Coloured. 180 x 260mm.
Plan of the city with an 8-point key on a scroll.
£200

738 [Large plan of Paris] JOUVIN DE ROCHEFORT, Albert.
Plan de la Ville, Cité Université et Fauxbourgs de Paris... Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, c.1705. Two sheets conjoined, total 600 x 885mm. Some restoration to the top margin and title.
A large and detailed plan of Paris, as divided between town, city and university, originally published as a separate-issue by De Fer: his dedication to the Dauphin still appears in the bottom left cartouches. The extensive indexes down both sides list several hundred landmarks alphabetically, with a grid system for easy location. Three cartouches show elevations of some of the most important buildings.
£1,400

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

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

753 [Regensburg] JANSSON, Jan.
Ratisbona Regensburg. Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson van Waeseberg, 1682. 420 x 500mm. Trimmed to neatline and laid on old paper for a composite atlas.
A detailed townplan, with a prospect above the map and a 36-point key. Published in the second edition of Jansson's Townbooks. KOEMAN: JA 18.
£1,200

964 [City of Rhodes] CAMOCIO, Giovanni Francesco.
Rodi Citta. Venice, 1572. 160 x 200mm. Old ink mss. plate number in margin; bottom corner of margin made up.
From Camocio's 'Isole famose, porti, fortezze, e terre maritime', first state (without plate number). Not listed in Zacharakis.
£520

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.
£1,100

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.
£75

793 [Rotterdam] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Roterodamum, Hollandiae in ostio Roteri flu.. Cologne, 1588, Latin text edition. Coloured. 370 x 485mm. Narrow margins.
The second map-view of Rotterdam from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed town plans, this one a full page plate rather than split with Gouda. KOEMAN: B&H 4.
£590

1085 [Large Plan of Seville] LOPEZ y VARGAS MACHUCA, Don Thomas.
Plano Geométrico de la Ciudad de Sevilla Dedicado al Excelentisimo Señor Don Pedro Lopez de Lerena... Madrid: Lopez, 1788. Six sheets conjoined, total 860 x 1060mm. A few small repairs to binding folds.
Plan of Seville, orientated with north to the top left, with the important buildings shown in profile. The scale is 1:2,708 or approx. 3cm to 100 Castillian varas.
£1,750

603 [Fine Plan of the Naval Dockyard at Sheerness] MILTON, Thomas.
A Geometrical Plan, & West Elevation Of His Majesty's Dock-Yard and Garrison, at Sheerness; with the Ordnance Wharf &c. London, 1755. 495 x 660mm.
A plan and prospect of the famous naval dockyard, finely engraved by P.C.Canot after Milton, both with a 24-point key. Around the whole is a rococo frame-like border containing vignette scenes of the works of the dockyard, drawn by John Clevely, a shipwright whose son James Clevely jnr is famous for his painting of the death of Captain Cook. Sheerness Naval Dockyard was founded by Samuel Pepys in 1663 to improve the defences on the eastern coast of England, at a time the Dutch were a threat. Indeed the Dutch admiral De Ruyter actually occupied the town of Sheerness briefly in 1667. Consequently the defences were constantly improved, including a remodel by John Rennie, opened in 1823.
£1,100

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

923 [Plan of Split] CASSAS, Louis-François.
Plan Général de la Ville et des Environs de Spalatro. Paris: Pierre Didot, 1802. 440 x 600mm.
Uncommon plan of Split, highlighting the defences and the palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Cassas was commissioned to create a series of drawings of the Istrian and Dalmatian coast in 1782, published as 'Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Istrie et de la Dalmatie'. In 1784 Cassas traveled to Constantinople with the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier and moving onto Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus, and Asia Minor. He drew many middle-eastern images and later published them with Choiseul's help.
£750

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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1086 [Famous Prospect of Toledo] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Toletum. Cologne, c.1598. Coloured. 380 x 505mm. Trimmed to printed border at top, false margin expertly added.
Toledo, the cathedral city of Spain, drawn by Hofnagel in 1566. One of the most decorative plates from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', with the view within an ornate border, and with insets of the Alcázar (the old Moorish citadel) and the cathedral. GOSS: City Maps of Euope, illustrated on the front cover.
£725

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.
£550

899 [Valetta] AA, Pieter van der.
Valetta Civitas Nova Maltæ Olim Millitæ. Leiden, c,1712 410 x 505mm.
A map-view town plan of Valetta with emphasis on the defences, with the buildings shown in profile. The title is on a crate carried by a porter; there are decorative cartouches around an inset map of Malta & Gozo and a 41-point key; and there is a large vignette sea battle between a galleon and galleys.
£1,250

900 [Valetta] BEREY, Charles Amadeus de, Jnr.
Les Villes, Forts et Châteaux de Malte. 1724. Paris, c.1724. 230 x 345mm.
Detailed plan of Valetta, marking the defences.
£420

1017 [Detailed Panorama of Venice] CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham.
Carte du Plan de Venise... Amsterdam, c.1718. 390 x 470mm.
Bird's-eye view of Venice with tables of information underneath.
£700

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.
£2,500

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

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