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Antique rare maps of Italy





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1560 - [Rome] Die Statt Rom in aller Welt

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Striking view of Rome from Munster's Cosmographia. Munster's view captures a fine sense of the fortified walls and Seven Hills of the Eternal City, with significant activity along the Tiber River. Many of Rome's great landmarks are clearly...


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1560 - [Ancient Rome] La figure de la place ou fut iadiz la cite de Rome avec ses portes, quand elle estoit en la grand fleur

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Detetailed regional map of ancient Rome, from Munster's Cosmographia, one of the most influential books of the 16th Century.


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1572 - Roma

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Exceptionally fine old color example of one of Braun & Hogenberg's views of Rome, from an early edition of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Striking bird's-eye plan of Rome showing the city as it was circa 1550. Included are...


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1657 - Roma Hodierna

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Fine example of Jansson's rare modern view of Rome, from his Theatrum Celebriorum Urbium Italiae, Aliarumque In Insulis Maris Mediterranei. Striking bird's-eye plan of Rome with decorative title cartouche, showing the city as it was c. 1550. Included...


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1670 - Latium (Rome area)

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Scarce map of the area around Rome, from Francesco Scoto's Itinerario, published in 1670.


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1690 - Novissima et Accuratissima Delineatio Romae Veteris et Novae . . .

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Striking example of this rare decorative plan of Rome, published in Amsterdam by Jacob de la Feuille, likely from the same plate as Joannes De Ram. This fine map of Rome is based on Giovanni Battista Falda's influential wall map. It provides...


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1719 - Nouveau Plan De La Ville De Rome Tire Pare Ordre Du Pape Par Mateo Gregoria De Romans Tres Utille Pour Les Voiageurs

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A decorative map of Rome, with inset views of ten major churches and structures, including St. Peter's and the Vatican. A key identifies a number of buildings, which are shown on the map. Other insets as well as text add further information to the...


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1720 - Rome Ancienne et Moderne

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Highly detailed plan of Rome with substantial notes concernign locations of the various buildings, streets, gardens, colleges, churches etc. A finely engraved map from Chatelain's monumental 7 volume Atlas Historique, one of the most famous and...


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1721 - A New Mapp of Rome Shewing Its Antient And Present Scituation. Most Humbly Inscribed to His Grace The Duke of Queensbury and Dover

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Finely colored and highly detailed map of Rome. Includes 4 vignettes showing the Coliseum, St. Peters, The Sepulcher of Caijus Cestus, and Trajan's Pillar. The keys to the map identify 155 Churches, Parishes, Monasteries, etc., 56 Palaces and Colleges...


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1748 - La Topografia di Roma di Gio Batta Nolli Dalla Maggiore in Questa Minor Tavola Dal Medesimo Ridotta

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Piranesi's Map of Rome Nice example of this celebrated plan of Rome, engraved by Giovani Battista Nolli and Charles Nolli, with decorative elements engraved by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The map shows the center of Rome in great detail, lying on a...


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1774 - Pianta Di Roma E Del Campo Marzo

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Fine example of Piranesi's remarkable modern map of Rome, dedicated to Pope Clement XIV. First issued in 1774, the map is oriented with south at the top. Piranesi's remarkable large format map shows the modern city of Rome within Aurelian Walls,...


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1830 - Plan of Ancient Rome. By W.B. Clarke, Archt.

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This is a fabulous town plan of Ancient Rome, including a description and location of many of the ancient walls and buildings that made up the city. This view of the imperial city strips away the many layers of later development, allowing the viewer to...


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1888 - Plan de Rome dresse en 1888 par l'abbe Nicole Membre de la Societe de Geographie.

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Highly detailed plan of Ancient and Modern Rome, published in Paris. The map is credited to "l'abbe H. Nicole," a member of the French Geographical Society, but we are unable to locate the Abbey. The key locates hundreds of important ancient and...


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1912 - [Expanding Rome To the Sea] Progetto per l'espansione di Roma al Mare dell'architetto Dario Carbone

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A fascinating set of maps and profiles, showing a proposal for developing the areas surrounding the Tiber River and for the expansion of Rome toward the sea, 1912, by Dario Carbone. As noted by Lina Malfona in Between Rome and the Sea: Ancient &...


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1975 - State of The Vatican City

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Fine large format pictorial view of the Vatican, surrounded by religious themed vignettes. We were not able to locate information on the artist, other than credits for other illustrations done in the mid-1970s.


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1493 - Venecie [Venice]

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Nice example of Hartmann Schedel's incunable view of Venice from the Latin edition of Schedel's Liber Chronicum, perhaps the single most influential secular illustrated book of the 15th Century and one of the landmark printed works of the 15th...