Detailed view of Taranto, which appeared in Bertelli's Theatrum Urbium Italicarum, first published in Venice in 1599. Includes a striking view of the town, harbor, main gates and fortified walls and a number of sailing ships, with a large coat of arms...
Detailed view of Gallipoli in Southern Italy, which appeared in Bertelli's Theatrum Urbium Italicarum, first published in Venice in 1599. Includes a detailed view of the fortified island, bridge, sailing ships and 2 decorative coats of arms.
Detailed view of Nettuno, an historic port town near Rome, which appeared in Bertelli's Theatrum Urbium Italicarum, first published in Venice in 1599. Includes a detailed image of the town, harbor, fortified wall, ships in the habor, with a coat of arms.
Detailed view of Calatia (Caizzo), which appeared in Bertelli's Theatrum Urbium Italicarum, first published in Venice in 1599. Includes a detailed image of the town, fortified walls, neighboring hills and a coat of arms.
Nice example of this early state of Barent Langenes's map of the Abruzzi, which first appeared in the 1598 edition of Langenes's Caert-Thresoor, published in Middelburg. Langenes's map was first issued in his Caert-Thresoor and later re-published by...
Fine old color, gold leaf example of Visscher's map of Sicily, Malta and a bit of Naples and Sardinia. Large decorative cartouche with 2 coats of arms and a large decorative military scale.
Early edition of Nolin's rare large format map of Sicily. Nolin's map is dedicated to Filipo V. The basic configuration and place names follow the map of Giacomo Cantelli. A later edition, with lengthy text annotation in the upper left corner,...
Detailed view of Messina, the residence of the Viceroy of Sicily. From De Fer's Atlas Curieux.
Striking map of Sicily, Naples and contiguous islands, with a large inset of Malta, published in Venice. Includes towns, mountains, rivers, lakes and a host of other details. Decorative cartouche. Santini's maps are largely based upon De Vaugondy's...
Rare Johannes Orlandi edition of Claudio Duchetti's map of the area around Rome. Duchetti's map of the area around Rome is based upon the map of Euphrosynus Ulpius. Duchetti's first edition was issued in 1564, with later edition issued by Henrik Van...
Scarce modern map of the region around Rome, published by Giralomo Ruscelli in 1574. While Ruscelli's atlas was first published in 1561, this is one of the few maps that did not appear in the first edition of the atlas, making it much scarcer on the...
Nice full color example of Ortelius' maps of the region centered on Venice, Padua and Vicenza, in one map and Puglia and Calabria in the other, from his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. Sailing ship and sea monster.
A nice example of Ortelius' map of Abruzzo, published in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the World. The map was first issued in 1590 and includes Ascoli, Civitella, Teramo, Aquila and Pescara.
Detailed map of Tuscany and the State of the Church, including a decorative cartouche, two coats of arms and a sailing ship. The present example is very similar to Merian's map, but does not include a signature to the right of the scale of miles and...
Decorative regional map centered on Lago de Bracciano, just to the North of Rome.
Decorative example of this detailed map of Campagna di Roma and Sabina. The map is centered on Rome. The map includes two elaborate cartouches, including a dedication to Cassiano Del Pozzo and several sailing ships.