Rare Maps of Italy

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• Geografi della Toscana [Ferdinand de Medici Horse Map]

  The rarest acquirable map of Tuscany.

  Cartographer(s): Stefano Scolari

  Place/Date: Venice / 1662

  $15,000 Add to cart
• Roma Vetus In usum scholarum editit Herm. Rheinhard Tymn Stuggt. Prof.

  A rare and spectacular vision of ancient Rome, compiled by a German scholar in the mid-19th century.

  Cartographer(s): Hermann Rheinhard

  Place/Date: Stuttgart / 1868

  $2,400 Add to cart
• Pianta Topografica di Roma Pubblicata Dalla Direzione Generale Del Censo ed Aggiornata a Tutto il Corrente anno MDCCCLXVI

  The most important 19th-century plan of Rome.

  Cartographer(s): Direzione Generale del Censo

  Place/Date: Rome / 1866

  $3,400 Add to cart
• Alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Benedetto XIV La Nuova Topografia di Roma Ossequiosamente Offerisce e Dedica l’Umilissimo Servo Giambattista Nolli Comasco

  The famous Nolli wall map of Rome: one of the finest urban plans ever made.

  Cartographer(s): Giovanni Battista Nolli

  Place/Date: Rome / 1748

  $35,000 Add to cart
• Venetia.

  Merian’s spectacular bird’s-eye-view of Venice.

  Cartographer(s): Matthäus Merian

  Place/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1640

  $3,500 Add to cart
• Venetia.

  A stunning and highly detailed view of the lagoon city of Venice, compiled in the early 18th century and issued by Probst, Augsburg’s most famous publishing dynasty.

  Cartographer(s): Friedrich Bernhard Werner, Georg Balthasar Probst

  Place/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1760

  $4,800 Add to cart
• Lago di Como

  Francesco Citterio’s fantastic mid-19th century panorama of Lake Como.

  Cartographer(s): Francesco Citterio

  Place/Date: Milan / 1840

  $4,000 Add to cart
• A Topographical Map of the Republick of Genoua, Taken from the Celebrated Map by Chaffrion…1764 / To the Right Honourable James Steward Mackenzie, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland, One of His Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council, and Late His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipoteniary to the King Of Sardina. This Map is most Humbly Inscribed…

  A spectacular and historically important 18th century wall-map of the Republic of Genoa.

  Cartographer(s): Andrew Dury

  Place/Date: London / 1764

  $4,400 Add to cart
• Siciliae Veteris Typus

  Beautiful old color Ortelius map of Sicily.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1601

  $1,200 Add to cart
• Roma

  Wonderful 16th century bird’s-eye-view of Rome.

  Cartographer(s):

  Place/Date: Venice / 1568

  $1,300 Add to cart
• Ostia

  1566 Lafreri view of Ostia and Rome.

  Cartographer(s): Giulio Ballino, Paolo Forlani

  Place/Date: Venice / 1566

  $1,500 Add to cart
• Regno di Napoli

  Handsome 1640 map of southern Italy with decorative coats-of-arms

  Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1640

  $1,000 Add to cart
• [Milan and environs]

  Extremely rare town-plan of Milan and its environs at time of great upheaval for the city.

  Cartographer(s): Franz Valmagini

  Place/Date: Milan / ca. 1850

  $2,800 Add to cart
• Venetia

  Gorgeous original color bird’s-eye-view of Venice: among the finest examples we have seen.

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Cologne / 1577

  $4,000 Add to cart

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• Sexta Europe. Tabula.

  The earliest obtainable map of Italy, a gorgeous impression in original black & white.

  Cartographer(s): Claudius Ptolemy, Pietro de la Torre

  Place/Date: Rome / ca. 1478

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• La Città di Palermo

  Vasi’s remarkable Baroque town plan and view of mid-18th century Palermo and surroundings.

  Cartographer(s): Giuseppe Vasi

  Place/Date: Rome / ca. 1757

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• Venetia

  A superb bird’s-eye-view of Venice, finely-engraved and exceptionally adorned.

  Cartographer(s): Giovanni Antonio de Paoli

  Place/Date: Rome / ca. 1600

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• Piano Regolatore Città di Roma

  Fine 19th century cadastral map of Rome — indicates the proposed area of the Victor Emmanuel II National Monument.

  Cartographer(s): Ing. E. Zanotti

  Place/Date: Rome / 1883

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• Fiorenza

  A Late Renaissance bird’s-eye-view of Florence, with the Medici family crest.

  Cartographer(s): Matteo Florimi

  Place/Date: Siena / ca. 1600

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• Panormo

  A superb late 17th century Merian town-plan of Palermo.

  Cartographer(s): Matthäus Merian

  Place/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1688

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• Nova Pulcherrimæ Civitatis Florentiae Topographia Accuratiss Delineata

  Gorgeous and richly-detailed Late Renaissance bird’s-eye-view of Florence, Italy.

  Cartographer(s): Donato Rascicotti

  Place/Date: Venice / ca. 1598

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• Roma

  Old color 1572 bird’s-eye-view of Rome by Braun and Hogenberg.

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Cologne / ca. 1572

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• Prospetto della situazione delle dogane e posti di guardia dépendti. dalle sei direzione provinciali de D.I. in Sicilia.

  Unusual map of Sicily with a rich array of information.

  Cartographer(s): Francesco Arancio

  Place/Date: Palermo / First edition 1845

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• The Maltese Islands

  Excellent pictorial map of Malta with plan of Valetta.

  Cartographer(s): Aldo Ciqheri

  Place/Date: Italy / ca. 1950

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• ELBA / ILBA sive ILVA insula…

  Rare Lafreri map of Elba and the Tuscan town of Piombino

  Cartographer(s): Donato Bertelli, Giovanni Francesco Camocio

  Place/Date: Venice / ca. 1575

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• Sicilia ossia Reali Domini al di là del Faro

  Detailed pre-Risorgimento map of Sicily.

  Cartographer(s): B. Marzolla

  Place/Date: Naples / 1853

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• Firenze Monumentale

  Splendid turn-of-the-century view of Florence.

  Cartographer(s): Emilio Tarchi

  Place/Date: Florence / ca. 1900

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• Haec est nobilis florens illa Neapolis, Campaniae civitas…

  Lovely hand-colored Renaissance view of Naples

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Colonge / 1580

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• Plan du Golfe de Palerme et des Environs…

  Detailed 1826 chart of Palermo with coastal views.

  Cartographer(s): Adm. William Henry Smyth

  Place/Date: Paris / 1826

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• Ischia quae olim Aenaria

  1590 old color Ortelius Island of Ischia

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1590

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• Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio

  1587 Ortelius six maps in one: Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, Corfu, Elba, and Djerba.

  Cartographer(s):

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1587

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• Sketch map of Italy with the Lines of Communication by Road, Rail, Sea, and Air

  Interesting 1953 pictorial map of Italy

  Cartographer(s): Salomone

  Place/Date: Rome / 1953

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• Sicilia

  Lovely 1594 map of Sicily with inset of King Phillip II

  Cartographer(s): Matthias Quad

  Place/Date: Colonge / 1594

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• Venetia

  Splendid 1569 Lafreri-school town view of Venice.

  Cartographer(s): Giulio Ballino, Paolo Forlani

  Place/Date: Venice / 1569

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• Florence. Florence Ville d’Italie, capitale de Toscane…

  Scarce and lovely mid-18th century bird’s-eye-view of Florence.

  Cartographer(s): Jacques Chereau

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1750

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• Delineatio Syracusarum Antiquarium Quadriurbium

  Rare 1725 bird’s-eye-view of ancient Syracuse, Sicily

  Cartographer(s): Pieter van der Aa

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1725

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• Parma

  Rare 1568 Lafreri school town-plan of Parma.

  Cartographer(s): Giulio Ballino, Paolo Forlani

  Place/Date: Venice / 1568

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• Italia mit dreien fürnemsten Inseln / Corsika / Sardinia und Sicilia

  1600 Münster woodblock map of Italy from Sicily to the Alps

  Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster

  Place/Date: Basel / 1600

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• Sardiniae regnum et Insula…

  Superb mid-19th century map of the island of Sardinia.

  Cartographer(s): Homann Heirs

  Place/Date: Nuremberg / 1744

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• Regni & Insulae Siciliae tabula geographica…

  Superb mid-19th century map of Sicily.

  Cartographer(s): Homann Heirs

  Place/Date: Nuremberg / ca. 1740

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• Europae tabula sexta continet italiam.

  A gorgeous 1541 map of Italy in the style of Ptolemaic cartography.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Venetia

  A spectacular 1641 Merian bird’s-eye-view of Venice.

  Cartographer(s): Matthäus Merian

  Place/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1640

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• Neapolis

  Finely-engraved 1640 bird’s-eye-view of Naples.

  Cartographer(s): Matthäus Merian

  Place/Date: Frankfurt / ca. 1640

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• Nova Italiae Delineatio

  Beautiful mid-17th century hand-colored map of Italy and surrounding islands.

  Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1635

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• Novissima et Accuratissima totius Italiae Corsicae et Sardiniae Descriptio

  Lovely 17th century Dutch map of Italy.

  Cartographer(s): Frederick de Wit

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680

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• Antiquae Urbis

  1641 town plan of ancient Rome with illustrated monuments.

  Cartographer(s): Giacomo Lauro

  Place/Date: Rome / 1641

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• Bologna celebre madre de’ studi

  Exceptional c. 1673 bird’s-eye-view of Bologna.

  Cartographer(s): Giuseppe Longhi

  Place/Date: Bologna / ca. 1673

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• Tabula Nova Siciliae, Sardiniae & Corsicae

  Bright 1541 Ptolemaic map of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Tabula nova Italiae

  Beautiful 1541 woodcut Ptolemaic map of Italy.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• [Napoleonic Survey of the Lagoon of Venice] Croquie de la Reconnaissance faite entre Le Po et le Lizonzo Par Le Colonel Sorbier

  Napoleon’s Survey of Venice After The Fall of the Venetian Republic.

  Cartographer(s): Jean Joseph Augustin Sorbier

  Place/Date: Venice / ca. 1806

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