[Map of Italy]

Nicolas Sanson.
Italie.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Italy, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0031

[Map of Italy]

Thomas Kitchin.
A New and Accurate Map of Italy, Drawn from the best Authorities.

London, c.1780. 440 x 395mm. Coloured. Narrow top margin.
With a decorative title cartouche.
KITC0018

[Miniature map of Southern Italy]

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Royaume de Naples et de Sicile.

Paris, Lamarche, 1795. 270 x 310mm. Coloured. Some minor spotting.
Map of the Kingdom of Naples, covering Southern Italy, with an inset of Sicily. Published in Year Three of the French Republic.
ROBE0040

[Early town plan of Ancona]

Braun & Hogenberg.
Ancona civitas Piceni celeverrima...

Cologne, 1572-. 335 x 480mm. Full original colour.
Plan of Ancona in Italy, published in the first volume of the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans. The original colour is particularly vibrant.
BRAU0003

[Early townplan of Bologna]

Braun & Hogenberg.
Bononia Alma Studior Mater.

Cologne, c.1588. 335 x 500mm. Full original colour.
Bologna in Italy, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans.
BRAU0008

[Decorative map of Florence]

Willem Blaeu.
Dominio Fiorentino.

Amsterdam, 1642. 385 x 500mm. Original colour.
With decorative cartouches in full colour for the title and dedication. Marking the cities of Florence and Pisa.
BLAE0109

[Plan and Prospect of Florence]

Homann Heirs.
Ichnographia Urbis in Tuscia primariæ Florentiæ Scenographice simul...

Nuremberg, c.1731. 500 x 590mm. Original colour.
Large and detailed plan of Florence, with a prospect underneath.
HOMA1033

[Miniature Map of Friuli]

Petrus Bertius.
Forum Julii.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0089

[Townplan of Gallipoli in Italy]

Braun & Hogenberg.
Gallipolis.

Cologne, c.1598. 385 x 520mm. Coloured. Evidence of a crack on the plate.
Published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans, this is a fine map-view of Gallipoli on the heel of Italy. The artillery on the walls of the city are protecting the approach of a galleon from the six stalking galleys.
BRAU0027

[Townplan of Genova]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Genoa. (Genova.)

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1834. Steel engraving, printed area 325 x 390mm. Original colour.
Detailed plan, with elevations of the important buildings under the map.
SDUK0047

[Plans of Genova and Firenze]

Braun & Hogenberg.
Genva; Florentia.

Cologne, c.1572. 335 x 485mm. Coloured.
Two townplans on one sheet: at top Genova, underneath Florence. Published in the first atlas of townplans, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
BRAU0028

[Milan townplan]

Nicolas De Fer
Milan. Ville des plus Grandes, des plus riches, et des plus fortes d'Italie...

Paris, 1700. 200 x 340mm. Coloured.
Town plan of Milan, with the defensive walls of the city shown and an extensive, 140-point key. With a separate sheet of engraved text.
DEFE0037

[Milan map]

Nicolas De Fer
Les Environs de Milan.

Paris, 1705. 235 x 350mm. Coloured.
Map of the environs of Milan, with the defensive walls of the city shown.
DEFE0036

[Townplan of Milan]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Milan. (Milano.)

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1832. Steel engraving, printed area 325 x 390mm. Original colour.
Detailed plan, with elevations of the important buildings under the map.
SDUK0045

[Map of the Italian island of Ischia.]

Abraham Ortelius.
Ischiam quæ olim Aenaria. Ab Aeneæ classe hic appulsa sic nominata. 1590.

Antwerp, 1602, Spanish edition. 360 x 480mm. Coloured.
Fine map of the islands in the Bay of Naples, orientated with north to the bottom of the map.
ORTE0026

[Homann Naples]

Johann Baptist Homann.
Urbis Neapoliscum Præcipuis eius Ædificus Secundum Planitiem Exacta Delineatio...

Nuremberg, c.1730. 495 x 580mm. Original colour.
Plan of Naples with an 84-point key. Above and below are eight insets: a map of the environs and seven views, including Vesuvius.
HOMA0021

[Townplan of Naples]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Naples. (Napoli.)

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1835. Steel engraving, printed area 325 x 390mm. Original colour.
Detailed plan, with two prospects under the map.
SDUK0044

[Townplan of Pesaro in Italy]

Braun & Hogenberg.
Pisarum vulgo Pezaro.

Cologne, c.1581. 345 x 405mm. Coloured.
The coastal town of Pezaro, after Georg Hoefnagel, a major contributor to Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitatis Orbis Terrarum'. The two figures lower right are portraits of Hoefnagel and Abraham Ortelius, who toured Italy together in 1578.
BRAU0082

[Map of Sardinia]

Willem Blaeu.
Sardinia Insula.

Amsterdam, 1642, Dutch text. 180 x 245mm, set in text. Original colour.
Sardinia, a smaller-than-usual map printed on a text-page of Blaeu's 'Theatrum', with a description of the island. KOEMAN: Bl 38A.
BLAE0117

[Coronelli Sardinia]

Vicenzo Mario Coronelli.
Isola e' Regno de Sardegna...

Venice, c.1690. 615 x 465mm. Coloured.
A large and decorative map of Sardinia, by a Franciscan monk who was cosmographer to the Republic of Venice and later head of the Franciscan order.
CORO0005

[Sicily with elaborate cartouches]

Johannes Jansson.
Siciliæ Veteris Typus.

Amsterdam, 1652. 375 x 485mm. Original colour. Paper age-toned. Split in lower centrefold margin.
Ancient Sicily, with elaborate cartouches for title and scale, and an inset plan of Syracuse Harbour. Engraved by Abraham Goos for Jansson's classical atlas, which had a text by Hornius.
JANS0047

[An uncommon town plan of Messina]

Johannes Blaeu.
Messina Ville de la Sicile.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1705. 420 x 530mm. Coloured.
An uncommon map-view of Messina in Sicily, with a 167-point key. In 1663 Johannes Blaeu published his three-volume 'Townbooks of Italy', with this map appearing in the third volume, which focused on the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily. After Blaeu's death and the disastrous fire at his publishing house, the plates for the atlas were bought by Pierre Mortier, who added his own maps to the series and republished it as a four-volume set.
BLAE0111

[An uncommon town plan of Palermo]

Johannes Blaeu.
Panormus Vernacule Palermo.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1705. 385 x 480mm. Coloured.
An uncommon map-view of Palermo in Sicily, with an extensive 162-point key. In 1663 Johannes Blaeu published his three-volume 'Townbooks of Italy', with this map appearing in the third volume, which focused on the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily. After Blaeu's death and the disastrous fire at his publishing house, the plates for the atlas were bought by Pierre Mortier, who added his own maps to the series and republished it as a four-volume set.
BLAE0112

[Map of Sicily, with Malta & Gozo]

Guillaume De L'Isle.
Carte de L'Isle, et Royaume de Sicile...

Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, c.1740. 490 x 590mm. Coloured.
Large and detailed map of Sicily, with an inset of Malta & Gozo.
DELI0019

[Plan of the defences of Messina in Sicily]

Isaac Basire.
Plan of the Works of the City of Messina, one of the strongest and most considerable Cities of Sicily, and a fine Sea-Port.

London, 1745. 385 x 490mm. Coloured.
Engraved by Basire for 'Mr. Tindal's Continuation of Mr.Rapin's History of England'.
BASI0007

[Townplan of Syracuse]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Syracuse with the Remaining Vestiges of the Five Cities.

London: SDUK, 1939. Steel engraving, printed area 325 x 390mm. Original colour.
Detailed plan, with a prospect under the map.
SDUK0048

[Townplan of Turin]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Turin. (Turino.)

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 325 x 390mm. Original colour.
Detailed plan, with three views under the map.
SDUK0046

[Town Plans of Orvieto & Loreto]

Braun & Hogenberg.
Orvieto; Lauretum.

Cologne, 1581. 350 x 484mm. Original colour.
Two Italian town plans, published in the 'Civitated Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans. Orvieto is in central Tuscany and Loreto in Ancona. It appears here because it was a famous pilgrimage site, with a basilica containing the house that the Virgin Mary had been born. Apparently angels carried the basilica from Nazareth to protect it from the Turks, first to Dalmatia in 1291, then to this hill in 1295.
BRAU0075

[Miniature Map of Tuscany]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Estat Ecclesiastique et Duché de Toscane.

Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
Central Italy.
MALL0060

[Miniature Map of Tuscany]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
P.tie Meridiona.le de L'Ancienne Italie.

Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
The south of classical Italy.
MALL0061

[Miniature Map of the Tyrol]

Petrus Bertius.
Tirolis Comita.

Amsterdam, c.1600. 85 x 120mm. Coloured.
The first plate of the map of the Tyrol used in the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'.
BERT0079

[Map of the Tyrol]

Georg Matthaus Seutter.
Principali Dignitate Gaudens Comitat Tirolis...

Augsburg, c.1750. 505 x 580mm. Coloured.
The mountainous borders of Italy, Switzerland & Austria, with an allegorical title cartouche lower right.
SEUT0023

[Tyrol]

Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Le Tyrol...

Paris, 1753. 495 x 575mm. Original outline colour with later additions.
Map of the Tyrol, divided between Italy and Austria.
ROBE0027

[Townplan of Velletri in Italy]

Braun & Hogenberg.
Velitrae Vulgo Blitri.

Cologne, c.1581. 345 x 405mm. Coloured.
Velletri near Rome, after Georg Hoefnagel, a major contributor to Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitatis Orbis Terrarum'. The two figures lower right are portraits of Hoefnagel and Abraham Ortelius, who toured Italy together in 1578.
BRAU0083

[Miniature prospect of Venice]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Place de St Marc.

Paris, 1683. 150 x 100mm. Coloured.
Prospect of St Mark's Square, Venice.
MALL0105

[Detailed plan of Venice]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Venice. Venèzia, Venèdig.

London: SDUK, 1838. Steel engraving, printed area 395 x 580mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of Vienna, with elevations of important buildings underneath.
SDUK0067