Italy And Malta from Bryars and Bryars

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493. Woodcut, 19 x 53.5 cm, on sheet 43 x 62.5 cm, black and white, published in a Latin text edition with further text on verso, centrefold strengthened on verso. One of the earliest obtainable views of Venice, derived from a larger woodcut by Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, which was published in the first illustrated printed… Read more about this item

London, Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1676. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 51.5 cm, modern hand-colour, closed tear in the sea (beside the vignette of a naval engagement), trivial spotting, English text to verso. Speed’s 'carte à figure' map of Italy, with eight costume vignettes and six city views around the edges, with the coats of arms of Corsica and… Read more about this item

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493. Woodcut, 25 x 53 cm, on sheet 42 x 60 cm, black and white, small stain in image, stitch holes at centrefold closed on verso, published in a German text edition with further text on verso. One of the earliest obtainable views of Florence, derived from a lost engraving by Francesco Rosselli. The woodcuts were… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1720. Copper engraving, 34 x 44 cm, black and white, trivial toning at centrefold, blank verso. This early modern conception of ancient Rome, published in Chatelain’s encyclopedic ‘Atlas Historique’ and derived from Ambrogio Brambilla’s map of 1582, includes imaginative reconstructions of 152 principal monuments and public buildings, numbered and identified in the legend, with no attempt to sketch… Read more about this item

Venice, c. 1571. Copper engraving, 31.5 x 21 cm, black and white, slight spotting, mostly in upper margin, a couple of tiny wormholes, closed split along one fold and short closed tear where tabbed into a bound volume, numbered in an old hand on blank verso; signed at lower left “In Venetia Al Ponte di Rialto D. Zenoni”. Watermark:… Read more about this item

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 49 x 63 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the nothern part of the Kingdom of Naples. The original date (1748) and privilege have been burnished from the plate. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers,… Read more about this item

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 50 x 63 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Papal States, Tuscany and Corsica. The original date (1750) and privilege have been burnished from the plate. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 356. … Read more about this item

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 45 x 54.5 cm, black and white, blank verso. Ormea, 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 and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 80 Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 41 x 55.5 cm, black and white, light staining in upper margin, blank verso. 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 and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl… Read more about this item

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 38 x 52 cm, engraved by Juvenal Boetta, black and white, blank verso. The Charterhouse of Pesio, a Carthusian foundation 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 and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in… Read more about this item

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 43.5 x 63 cm, black and white, blank verso. Revello, 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 and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 80 Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 48 x 56 cm, black and white, upper margin cut close, light stain in upper part of the image, blank verso. The Camaldolese hermitage near Lanzo Torinese in Piedmont (visible on the hillside to the left). Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the… Read more about this item

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1835. Steel engraving, 33.5 x 40.5 cms, engraved by Thomas Bradley after William Barnard Clarke, original hand colour with black and white vignettes beneath, light marginal toning, blank verso. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the… Read more about this item

London: War Office, 1923. Lithograped map, sheet size 76 x 85 cm, printed in colours, old folds with neat restoration to wear along fold lines and to fold intersections on verso, blank verso. Grid over-printed in red; showing key features including railways, civil telephone lines and offices, aqueducts and water tanks (‘brackish’ and ‘potable’). Revised to January 1923, and… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, Joannes &: Cornelis Blaeu, 1640. Copper engraving, sheet size 49.5 x 30 cm, map 18 x 24 cm, modern hand colour, set within Latin text with further text on verso. The Italian island of Sardinia, oriented with north to the left of the map. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 36A. Map

Amsterdam, Joannes &: Cornelis Blaeu, 1640. Copper engraving, sheet size 49.5 x 30 cm, map 18 x 24 cm, modern hand colour, set within Latin text with further text on verso. The French island of Corsica, rules by the Genoese in the 17th century and included in the Italian volume of Blaeu’s atlas, oriented with north to the left… Read more about this item

London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1830. Steel engraving, 33 x 41 cm, engraved by John and Charles Walker after William Barnard Clarke, original hand colour, numbered in an old hand, blank verso. At the foot of the map are architectural elevations of some of Rome’s most famous post-classical buildings, dominated by St Peter’s. Rome was then divided into 14 districts,… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, Joannes &: Cornelis Blaeu, 1640. Copper engraving, sheet size 49.5 x 30 cm, map 20 x 25.5 cm, modern hand colour, set within Latin text with further text on verso. The Tuscan island of Elba, a map newly added to the ‘Atlas Novus’ in 1640; Koeman records that it was first published in the French text edition of… Read more about this item

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 62.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of Italy, showing the Venetian Republic, Papal States, Kingdom of Naples etc. The original date (1750) and privilege have been burnished from the plate. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy… Read more about this item

Naples, 1845. Lithographed folding map, 36.5 x 46.5 cm, original hand colour, dissected into 8 panels and laid on linen, edged in decorative brown cloth. Map of the Bay of Naples, also issued as an atlas map (see the example of Marzolla’s ‘Atlante Geografico’ in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection). Map