Striking example of Braun & Hogenberg's view of Venice, one of the most highly sought after 16th Century views of the City. Includes a key with over 150 placenames. Important early view of Venice, from Braun & Hogenberge's Civitatus Orbis...
This a rare view of Venice from the French atlas maker and royal cartographer Jean Boisseau. The stunning view presented shows the city of the Doges in a magnificent bird's eye format, focusing on the main island and surrounding islets, but with the...
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Late example of Stefano Scolari's map of Venice, first published in 1597. The map is based upon the Bernardo Salvioni (1597) plan of Venice. This gorgeous bird's-eye view of Venice gives a taste of how this city existed during the seventeenth century....
Fine example of this striking view of the island of Vignole and its Monastery, built in 1422. Fine bird's-eye view of the formerly famous monastery with all the gardens and greens, mostly demolished within the last 200 years. The view was engraved by...
Fine dark example of the left half of this stunning view of Venice and environs, published in Amsterdam by Frederick De Wit. Shows the Grand Canal, Piazza San Marco, Ponte Rialto and other major landmarks.
Nice example of one of the most important early plans of Venice. This is the Fourth and final edition of this interesting plan, first published in 1627 by the otherwise unknown publisher Alessandro Badoer. Scolari has retouched the contours and...
Fine example of this early edition of Nicolas De Fer's rare separately published plan of Venice, first published in Paris in 1695. The map includes an inset of the Lagoon of Venice near the title, inset vignettes of the Lagoon, two views of the Piazza...
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A Fine Late 18th Century Plan of Venice An exceptional 2-sheet Plan of Venice published by Lodovico Furlanetto, a publisher and dealer of prints in Venice, active between 1763 and 1784. Furlanetto's large plan of the lagoon city of Venice, includes...
Fanciful view of the City of Pisa, from the Liber Chronicum (Nuremberg Chronicle), a landmark work of the 15th Century. Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten (loosely translated as World Chronicle, but popularly...
Fanciful view of the City of Milan, from the Liber Chronicum (Nuremberg Chronicle), a landmark work of the 15th Century. Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten (loosely translated as World Chronicle, but popularly...
The Earliest Obtainable View of Florence, Italy Finely colored example of Hartmann Schedel's incunable view of Florence, from Schedel's Liber Chronicum, perhaps the single most influential secular illustrated book of the 15th Century and one of the...
Scarce early plan of Florence, published in Paris by De Belleforest. In 1544, the scholar and geographer Sebastian Munster published his Cosmographia, one of the most important an influential works of its type in the16th century In 1575, the Paris...
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Detailed view of the City of Florence, set with a decorative engraved title frame. Large coat of arms, held aloft by two angels, with two additional cherubs in the upper left and right corner. Major landmarks (Duomo, Ponte Vecchio, etc.) are plainly...
Fine early birdseye view of the Trento in Italy. From Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum, the most important book of town plans and views published in the 16th Century. The bird's-eye plan shows Trento on the Adige with its surrounding...
Old color example of Braun & Hogenberg's views of Urbino and Sulmona. This view of Urbino has been reduced to two views. The upper view is from the Southwest and shows the Palazzo Ducale built into the slope. Directly behind it appears the tower...
Fine example of the Braun & Hogenberg Plan of Rome, first published in the 1588 edition of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Braun & Hogenberg's view is based upon the work of Pirro. However, the title banner and lower key embellishments are...
