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[Maps of Islands in the Mediterranean] Abraham Ortelius.
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Antwerp, 1587. 360 x 470mm. Coloured.
The islands are: Malta, Sardinia, Sicily, Elba and Djerba, off North Africa. Koeman: Ort 22.
ORTE0071 |
£595 |
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[Map of the course of Jason and the Argonauts] Johannes Jansson.
Argonautica.
Amsterdam, c.1660. 380 x 505mm. Coloured.
The Eastern Mediterranean, marking the course of Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis in the Black Sea. Engraved by Pieter van den Keere for the Jansson's atlas of the Ancient World.
JANS0001 |
£390 |
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[Gibraltar, Malta & Gozo, Corfu depicted] John Tallis.
British Possessions in the Mediterranean.
London: London Printing and Publishing Company, 1861. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 355 x 250mm.
Map of Gibraltar, Malta & Gozo, Corfu, and other Greek islands, with engraved vignettes including views of Valetta and Corfu.
TALL0041 |
£125 |
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[The Straits of Gibraltar] Georg Matthaus Seutter.
Accurata Designatio Celebris Freti prope Andalusiæ Castellum Gibraltar, inter in Europam et Africam...
Augsburg, c.1730. 505 x 590mm. Original colour,
A superbly decorative map of Straits of Gibraltar, outlining the defences of the British fortress. Under the map are prospects of the fortress, Cadiz and Malaga, and insets plans of Minorca (also held by the British) and the Spanish fortress of Ceuta (the other 'Pillar of Hercules'). The map also has a splendid martial-themed title cartouche.
SEUT0020 |
£680 |
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[Gibraltar] Tobias Conrad Lotter.
Castellum Gibraltar...
Augsburg, c.1770. 490 x 590mm. Original body colour.
Two maps on one sheet: a map of Gibraltar up to the Spanish lines; and a map of the Straits of Gibraltar with Cadiz and Marbella.
LOTT0009 |
£325 |
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[Greece] Sebastian Munster
Nou Grecia secondo tutte le regione, & provincie di quella di qua & di la dal Hellesponto.
Basle, 1575, Italian edition. Woodcut, printed area 270 x 345mm.
A good, dark impression of this map of Greece, the Ægean and western Turkey.
MUNS0009 |
£225 |
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[Eleven maps of Greek Islands on one sheet] Abraham Ortelius.
Archipelagi Insularum Aliquot Descrip.
Antwerp, 1602, Spanish text edition. 365 x 515mm. Original colour.
With a large map of Crete and ten smaller maps, including Chios and Rhodes.
ORTE0028 |
£560 |
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[Maps of Crete and the Greek Islands] Gerard Mercator
Candia cum Insulis aliquot circa Græciam.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1613. 385 x 485mm. Original colour.
A decorative map of Crete, with insets for the six other islands: Corfu, Zakinthos, Milos, Naxos, Thira & Kárpathos. KOEMAN: Me 22.
MERC0007 |
£560 |
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[Decorative Map of Greece] Gerard Mercator
Græcia.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1613. 370 x 475mm. Original colour. Minor split in centrefold lower margin repaired.
Greece by Gerard Mercator, famous for divising the famous Mercator Projection of the world. A very decorative map.
MERC0032 |
£450 |
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[Northern Greece, Athens and Corfu, Albania map] Willem Blaeu.
Macedonia, Epirus et Achaia.
Amsterdam, c.1640. Dutch text. French text. 385 x 505mm.Coloured.
Northern Greece, with Athens, Thebes and Corfu, as well as modern Albania and Macedonia.
BLAE0050 |
£250 |
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[Decorative miniature map of Greece] Pieter van den Keere.
Greece.
London, William Humble, 1646. 90 x 125mm. Coloured.
A decorative miniature map of Greece, engraved by van der Keere for the Speed 'Epitome' atlas.
KEER0014 |
£85 |
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[Miniature Map of Greece] Alain Manesson Mallet.
Grece Generale.
Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
MALL0059 |
£85 |
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[Decorative Corfu Map] Vicenzo Mario Coronelli.
Isola di Corfu.
Venice, c.1690. 470 x 630mm. Coloured.
A large and decorative map of Corfu, by a Franciscan monk who was cosmographer to the Republic of Venice and later head of the Franciscan order. With nine vignettes of fortifications within garlands.
CORO0007 |
£980 |
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[Map of Greece] John Arrowsmith.
Greece and the Ionian Islands.
London, 1842. 630 x 530mm. Original colour. Centrefold in margins reinforced with archival tissue on map surface,
Detailed map, issued in the 'London Atlas' by the foremost British cartographer of his generation.
ARRO0020 |
£95 |
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[Crete] Sebastian Munster
Candia seu Creta insula.
Basle, c.1575. Woodcut, printed area 80 x 160mm, set in a page of text.
Early map of Crete
MUNS0006 |
£95 |
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[Decorative Map of the Morea] Gerard Mercator
Morea olim Peloponessus.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1613. 330 x 440mm. Original colour.
The Morea by Gerard Mercator, famous for divising the famous Mercator Projection of the world. A very decorative map.
MERC0036 |
£350 |
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[Macedonia with Athens, Corfu and Albania] Gerard Mercator
Macedonia Epirus et Achaia.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1613. 360 x 435mm. Original hand colour. Split in margin near centrefold repaired
Map of Northern Greece, including Athens, Salonika and Corfu, and Albania and Macedonia.
MERC0022 |
£195 |
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[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 |
£150 |
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[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 Kingsom of Naples, covering Southern Italy, with an inset of Sicily. Published in Year Three of the French Republic.
ROBE0040 |
£125 |
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[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 |
£460 |
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[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 |
£750 |
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[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 |
£450 |
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[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 |
£980 |
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[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 |
£125 |
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[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 |
£980 |
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[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 |
£60 |
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[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 |
£250 |
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[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 |
£195 |
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[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 |
£60 |
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[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 |
£890 |
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[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 |
£1,200 |
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[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 |
£125 |
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[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 |
£980 |
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[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 |
£495 |
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[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 |
£495 |
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[Coronelli Sardinia] Vicenzo Mario Coronelli.
Isola e' Regno de Sardegna...
Venice, c.1690. 615 x 465mm. Coloured.
A large and decorative map of Sardina, by a Franciscan monk who was cosmographer to the Republic of Venice and later head of the Franciscan order.
CORO0005 |
£680 |
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[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 |
£495 |
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[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 disasterous 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 |
£980 |
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[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 disasterous 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 |
£980 |
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[Map of Sicily] Nicolas De Fer
Isle et Royaume de Sicile.
Paris, 1705. 230 x 340mm. Coloured.
DEFE0027 |
£250 |
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[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 |
£450 |
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[Plan of the defences of Messina in Sicily] Isaac Basire.
Plan of the Works of the City if 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 |
£275 |
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[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 |
£50 |
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[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 |
£75 |
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[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 |
£680 |
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[Miniature Map of Tuscany] Alain Manesson Mallet.
Estat Ecclesiastique et Duché de Toscane.
Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
Central Italy.
MALL0060 |
£98 |
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[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 |
£98 |
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[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 |
£98 |
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[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 |
£295 |
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[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 |
£180 |
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[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 a elevations of important buildings underneath.
SDUK0067 |
£150 |
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[A fine prospect of Valetta in Malta] Anonymous.
Malta - Città Valetta.
Italian, c.1847. Lithograph with fine original colour. Printed area 165 x 250mm.
Showing the defences of the harbour.
ANON0022 |
£250 |
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[Plan of Valletta] Joseph Roux.
Plan du Port de Malte.
Paris, 1779. 140 x 200mm.
Chart of the harbour of Valletta, with depths marked, published in Roux's 'Plans et Rades de la Méditerraneé'.
ROUX0002 |
£175 |
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[A Famous View of Valletta] J.M.W. Turner,
Malta.
London, c.1840. Steel engraving. Printed area 110 x 140mm.
A prospect of Valletta by one of England's best landscape painters, and engraved by James Basire. The original watercolour, the only known Malta subject by Turner, is now in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Malta, where it is regarded as one of the highlights of its C19th paintings collection.
TURN0003 |
£40 |
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[Map of Iberia] Johannes Cloppenburg.
Hispaniæ Nova Descriptio.
Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson van Waesberge, 1676. 185 x 255mm. Coloured.
Spain and Portugal, engraved by van der Keere. Waesberger was Jan Jansson's son-in-law.
CLOP0013 |
£150 |
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[Miniature map of Iberia] Guillaume Sanson.
Espagne.
Paris, c.1700. 155 x 175mm. Coloured. Narrow top margin.
Miniature map after Sanson
SANS0016 |
£56 |
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[Decorative map of Spain and Portugal] Antonio Zatta.
Li Regni di Spagna e Portugallo...
Venice, 1796. 295 x 415mm. Original colour.
With a fine title cartouche in full colour.
ZATT0062 |
£150 |
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[Fine Map of Portugal] Jodocus Hondius.
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania...
Amsterdam, 1613. 335 x 495mm. Original colour.
Map of Portugal after Secco, engraved by Baptiste van Doeticum. Orientated with north to the right, the map is decorated with three large strapwork cartouches. KOEMAN: Me 19.
HOND0057 |
£350 |
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[Decorative map of Portugal] Matthaus Merian.
Portugallia et Argarbia quæ olim Lusitania.
Frankfurt, c.1660. 295 x 375mm. Coloured.
Decorative map of Portugal after Fernando Alvaro Secco, orientated with north to the right, surrounded with decorations including armorials, galleons and Neptune.
MERI0015 |
£295 |
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[Portugal with allegorical figure] Christoph Weigel.
Portugallia ex descriptione exactissima Eduarti Nonii Vernandu Alvari Secci et Antonii Vasconcelli delineata.
Nuremberg, c.1718. 410 x 340mm. Original colour.
The decorative title cartouche of the map depicts an allegorical figure representing Portugal with Asia, Africa and America presenting offerings.
WEIG0012 |
£200 |
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[Map of Portugal and Brazil] Johann Baptist Homann.
Portugalliæ et Algarbia...
Nuremberg, c1720. 500 x 575mm. Original colour with later additions.
With a large cartouche for the title and an inset map of Portuguese possessions in Brazil.
HOMA0027 |
£425 |
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[Map of Portugal] Homann Heirs.
Regnum Portugalliæ...
Nuremberg, 1736. 610 x 500mm. Original colour. Some minor creasing.
Johann Baptist Homann's map, re-edited by Nolin for Homann's successors.
HOMA1017 |
£425 |
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[Portugal and her Brazilian Possessions.] Georg Matthaus Seutter.
Portugallia et Algarbia Regna...
Augsburg, c.1740. 495 x 570mm. Coloured. Narrow bottom margin.
A fine map of Portugal, with a superb allegorical title cartouche and inset showing the Portuguese colonies in Brazil.
SEUT0022 |
£680 |
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[Portugal with rococo cartouche.] Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie Méridionale de Royaume de Portugal.
Paris, 1751. 500 x 535mm. Original outline colour with later body colour.
Map of southern Portugal with a fine rococo title cartouche.
ROBE0024 |
£225 |
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[Portugal] Antonio Zatta.
Regno di Portugallo.
Venice, 1775. 400 x 265mm. Original colour.
Portugal map with a fine title cartouche.
ZATT0042 |
£195 |
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[Decorative map of northern Portugal] Antonio Zatta.
Li Portugallo cioé le Provincie di Entre Douro, e Minho, Traz-os-Montes, e Beira...
Venice, 1776. 320 x 425mm. Original colour.
With a fine title cartouche in full colour.
ZATT0063 |
£175 |
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[Map of Portugal] Thomas Bowen.
Portugal Accurately Drawn from the most approved Modern Maps and Charts.
London, 1780. 335 x 430mm. Coloured,
BOWE0016 |
£150 |
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[Detailed map of Portugal.] John Pinkerton.
Portugal.
London, Cadell & Davies, 1813. 750 x 550mm. Original body colour. Crack in lower platemark.
Large and detailed map of Portugal, published as Wellington was clearing up the remains of French forces at the end of the Peninsula War.
PINK0010 |
£125 |
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[Colourful Map of Portugal] John Cary.
Portugal.
London, c.1815. 320 x 250mm. Original colour.
Cary's smaller map of Portugal, in fine colour.
CARY0020 |
£59 |
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[Colourful Map of Portugal] John Cary.
A New Map of the Kingdom of Portugal, Divided into Its Provinces, From the Latest Authorities.
London, 1819. 520 x 590mm. Original colour.
A detailed map, in fine colour.
CARY0018 |
£125 |
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[Detailed Map of Portugal] James Wyld.
Chorographical Map of the Kingdom of Portugal Divided into Its Grand Provinces.
London, c.1870. 780 x 530mm. Original colour.
A large and colourful map, also showing the Algarve.
WYLD0017 |
£150 |
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[Algarve] Antonio Zatta.
L'Esremadura di Portugallo Alentejo, ed Algarve...
Venice, 1775. 325 x 330mm. Original colour. Small repair to margin outside map.
Map of Portugal with a fine title cartouche.
ZATT0003 |
£150 |
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[Map of Portugal] Nicolas De Fer
Lisbonne.
Paris, 1705. 245 x 335mm. Coloured.
Plan of the defensive walls of Lisbon, with inset views of the Ribeira Palace (destroyed in the 1755 earthquake) and the Belém Tower, completed 1521 to defend the entrance of the Tagus and now a National Monument. With a sheet of engraved text.
DEFE0034 |
£295 |
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[Lisbon plan] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Lisbon (Lisboa.)
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 390mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of Lisbon, with a vignette prospect under the plan and an inset map of the environs of the city.
SDUK0069 |
£98 |
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[Basque Region map] Nicolas De Fer
Les Austuries et la Biscaye, Les Royaume de Navarre, d'Arragon et de Leon, et Celuy de la Vieille Castille.
Paris, 1705. 260 x 360mm. Original colour with additions to the title cartouche.
North-east Spain, marking Madrid, Pamploma, Burgos & Leon.
DEFE0039 |
£150 |
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[Prospects of Lebrija & Settanil in Andalucia] Braun & Hogenberg.
Le Brixa; Settenil.
Cologne, c.1588. 325 x 420mm. Coloured.
Two prospects of towns in the environs of Seville, drawn by Hofnagle and published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans.
BRAU0018 |
£295 |
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[Decorative map of Western Andalucia] Abraham Ortelius.
Hispalensis Coventus Delineatio, Auctore Hieronymo Chiaves.
Antwerp, 1612. 350 x 460mm. Coloured.
Andalucia west of Cordoba, marking Cadiz and Seville.
ORTE0025 |
£350 |
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[Vue d'Optique of Seville] Habermann.
Prospectus Viae Majoris Civitatis Hispalensis. Vüe Perspective de la Bouvre de Seville et de la G.de Rue.
c.1770. 315 x 430mm. Original hand colour.
A 'vue d'optique' of Seville, designed to be viewed through a zograscope, an optical viewer. The naive colouring is standard on these prints.
VUED0003 |
£280 |
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[Miniature map of Andalusia] Abraham Ortelius.
Andaluzia
Antwerp, 1593. 80 x 110mm. Coloured.
Andalusia, published in the 'Epitome'.
ORTM0036 |
£95 |
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[Majorca & Ibiza] Antonio Zatta.
Isola di Majorca, D'Ivica, e di Formentera.
Venice, 1778. 320 x 420mm. Original colour.
Majorca and Ibiza map, with a fine title cartouche and an inset of Formentera.
ZATT0032 |
£350 |
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[Chart of the Battle of Vigo, 1702] Isaac Basire.
Draught of ye Bay of Bulls between the Town of Rotta and Fort Dt. Catherine, under the Command of his Grace the Duke of Ormond; with the disposition of the Frigates which were ordered to stand in by the Shore, to favour the Landing; as also the Situation of the Ground and Bay, with that of the Enemy's Batteries & Troops.
London, c.1750. 480 x 390mm. Coloured.
Battle plan of the Battle of Vigo, 1702, fought in the War of the Spanish Succession. Engraved by Basire for 'Mr. Tindal's Continuation of Mr.Rapin's History of England'.
BASI0005 |
£195 |
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[Decorative Map of Castile in Fine Old Colour] Jodocus Hondius.
Castilliæ Veteris et Novæ Descriptio. 1606.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1613. 365 x 500mm. Original colour.
An early example of this very decorative map of Castille from Mercator's Atlas.
HOND0082 |
£375 |
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[Aragon & Catalonia] Jodocus Hondius.
Arragonia et Catalonia.
Amsterdam, 1623, Latin text edition. 350 x 470mm. Coloured.
South eastern Spain, decorated with two strapwork cartouches and ships.
HOND0081 |
£360 |
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[Map of Catalonia with fine cartouche] Johann Baptist Homann.
Principatus Cataloniæ...
Nuremberg, c1720. 485 x 550mm. Original colour.
With a fine title cartouche in original colour.
HOMA0006 |
£450 |
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[Escurial Palace] Anonymous.
Vüe Perspective du grand Clître de l'Escurial, Sepulture de Roys d'Espagne.
Augsburg: Probst? c.1760. 320 x 425mm. Original colour.
A vüe d'optique of the gardens of the Escurial Palace. Designed to be used in an optical viewer called a zograscope, the image is reversed. The naïve colour is standard with these prints.
ANON0003 |
£225 |
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[Map of Gallicia with mer-man] Willem Blaeu.
Gallæcia Regnum, descripta F. Fer.
Amsterdam, c.1650. French text. 365 x 500mm. Original colour.
The title is on a shell held aloft by a mer-man.
BLAE0031 |
£250 |
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[Leon and Asturias with decorative cartouches] Johannes Jansson.
Legionis Regnum et Asturiarum Principatus.
Amsterdam, 1636. 385 x 490mm. Coloured.
Leon and Asturias, with decorative cartouches for title and scale.
JANS0030 |
£250 |
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[Decorative plan of Madrid] Georg Matthaus Seutter.
Madritum sive Mantua Carpetanorum celeberrima Castiliæ Novæ Civitas...
Augsburg, c.1730. 505 x 585mm. Original colour with later additions.
A large and decorative plan of the city, with a prospect under the map and a bull-fighting scene bottom left.
SEUT0025 |
£980 |
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[Early Townplan of Alhama] Braun & Hogenberg.
Alhama.
Cologne, 1575-. 350 x 465mm. Fine orignal colour.
Prospect of Alhama, near Granada, drawn by Georg Hoefnagel in 1563 for the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans.
BRAU0077 |
£350 |
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[First Issue of this map of Valencia] Johannes Jansson.
Valentia Regnum.
Amsterdam, Jansson & Henricus Hondius, 1638, First Issue. 355 x 480mm. Coloured.
Decorated with fine strapwork cartouches for the title and scale, a galleon and sea monster. Koeman: Me 52a.
JANS0085 |
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