Italy
Stunning 18th Century Manuscript Wall Map of Pisa.
Pianta della Citta di Pisa.
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An incredible discovery, this large-format 1760 manuscript map of Pisa, Italy, was prepared by Ranieri Spadaccini and Ignazio Pellegrini. It provides a unique and highly detailed historical record of the city's walls, streets, Medieval religious structures, and other infrastructure in the mid to late 18th century. (more details)
Sardinia becomes Italian.
[Sardegna.]
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An exceptional and finely executed c. 1720 manuscript map of Sardinia (Sardegna), Italy. The map captures Sardinia as it transitioned from Spanish Habsburg to Savoyard rule following the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718 - 1720). It was produced under the new Savoy rulers as an administrative and defensive tool to modernize the 16th-century Spanish tower system, cataloging existing towers and planning new ones. This transition marks the point when Sardinia became 'Italian'. (more details)
Pictorial representation of the Eastern Po Valley in during the Italian Wars.
Vero disegno di Mirandola con li castelli, ville e poste su nei suol.
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This is a c. 1551 Lafreri-school map of the eastern Po Valley issued by Antonio Salamanca in Rome to illustrate the historic siege of Mirandola, a key episode in the Italian Wars (1494 - 1559) between the Papacy and the imperial interests of Valois France. The map is striking for its fine engraving and accurate vignette presentation of the Po Valley cities and those adjacent. (more details)
'The Balbi Map' - largest commercial map of Italy of the 19th century.
Gran Carta d'Italia.
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A truly 'ginormous' production, this is Giuseppe Civelli's great map of Italy, here in its 1845 first edition. The map measures nearly 100 inches high and eighty inches wide, making it one of the largest maps we have seen. It was issued in the early days of the Italian Risorgimento and can be seen as a unique symbol aspiring to a newly ascendant sense of shared Italian national identity. (more details)
One of the largest commercial maps we have seen.
A truly 'ginormous' production, this is Giuseppe Civelli's great map of Italy, here in its 1845 first edition. The map measures nearly 100 inches high and eighty inches wide, making it one of the largest maps we have seen. It was issued in the early days of the Italian Risorgimento and can be seen as a unique symbol aspiring to a newly ascendant sense of shared Italian national identity. The map embraces the whole of the Italian peninsula and Sicily, as well as Corsica, Sardinia, Dalmatia, Malta, North Africa, and the northern Italian states. Along the top of the map, there appears a detailed comparative elevation chart. Throughout the detail is staggering, making this great work the finest map of Italy to appear in the 19th century. (more details)
Glorious Return of Exiles to the Waldensian Valleys following the Piedmontese Easter.
Nieuwe Caerte der Valleyenin Piemont Door de Waldensen etc. Tegen alle Gewelt Beschernt. / Nouvelle Carte Des Vallees De Pieomont Etc, Vaillamment Defendues, Contre Toute Laviolenge Des Francois, Par Les Vaudois Reformes, Etc.
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An extraordinary discovery of great rarity, the is the 1691 Malet / Ottens separate-issue map of the Piedmontese Alps illustrating the 1689 Glorieuse Rentrée of the Waldensians to their traditional Alpine valleys following their exile in the wake of the 1655 ethnic cleansing known as the Piedmontese Easter. (more details)
Greatest Map of Mont Blanc Ever Made.
Le Massif du Mont Blanc.
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This is Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's stunning chromolithographic 1876 map of Mont Blanc, produced after years of studying the massif's geography and geology. It is considered the greatest map of Mont Blanc ever produced, reflecting Viollet-le-Duc's artistic skills and unique experience as France's premier restorationist of historic sites. The map's production also coincided with territorial disputes between France and Italy (still unresolved) following the 'return' of Mont Blanc to France in 1860. (more details)
Largest 19th century map of Malta - issued by an ex-Knight when the Order of St. John was nearly destroyed.
A New Sea and Land Chart of the Sovereign Principality of Malta; laid down from the best Authorities and the different Manuscript Maps communicated to the Chevr. Louis de Boisgelin under whose particular inspection this Chart has been planned.
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This 1804 production is the largest and most detailed map of Malta and Gozo to appear in the 19th century. The map was produced by Pierre Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu and Samuel John Neele based upon Boisgelin's life in Malta as a member of the knightly Order of St. John. The map is matched in dimensions and sophistication only by the Carte Generale de la Principaute Souveraine des Isles de Malte et du Goze (53.1 x 22.8 inches), made by Gervais de Palmeus in 1752. (more details)
Best Sicily map of its generation.
Carta Generale della Isola di Sicilia Compilata Disegnata ed Incisa Nell'Officio Topografico di Napoli su I Migliori Materiali Esistenti e sulle recenti operazioni fatte Dal Cavaliere Guglielmo Errico Smyth Capitano delle Reale Marina Brittannica.
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One of the greatest maps of Sicily, this is the 1826 Officio Topografico di Napoli wall map of Sicily compiled from surveys undertaken by William Henry Smyth, a British Royal Navy hydrographer active during the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). The Smyth surveys were expanded and refined by the Officio Topografico to accommodate administrative use under the newly established Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. At the time, Sicily was openly rebellious and generally dissatisfied with the incompetent administration of Naples. This piece represents a revolution in the cartographic representation of Sicily, surpassing in content and precision the 1779 Orcel / Schmettau map, considered for nearly 50 years the premier map of Sicily. (more details)
'Both God and man have shown their genius at Siena.'- Maurice Druon
Notabili della Città del Siena.
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A striking c. 1636 first edition view map of Siena, Italy, by the Czech master engraver Wenceslaus Hollar. (more details)
Striking plan of Venice.
Pianta della regia citta di Venezia a sue isole vicine.
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This is a beautiful 1841 Giuseppe Kier city map of Venice, featuring an array of superbly lithographed views. (more details)
Sicily and its Harbors.
Insula sive Regnum Siciliae Urbibus praecipuis exornatum Urbibus praecipuis exonatum et novissime editum per F. de Wit.
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This is Frederick De Wit's c. 1671 map of Sicily, one of the most beautiful depictions of the Kingdom of Sicily produced in the Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking - both in its delineation of Sicily itself and its bird's-eye views of five of Sicily's principal ports. (more details)
Struggle between France and Austria for dominance in Italy.
Cursus Padi per Longobardiam a Fonte usque a ostia cum fluminibus que in illum se exonerant et adjacentibus Ducatibus ac Principatibus quos interluit et qui confinis sunt, Tribus Combinandis tabellis...
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This is Mattheus Seutter's stunning c. 1734 large-scale three-sheet map of the Po River Valley, covering much of northern Italy. The map was issued during the War of the Polish Succession (1733 - 1735). It does not reflect struggles in Poland directly but rather the wider strategic struggle between France and Austria for dominance in Europe and Italy. (more details)
Souvenirs of Venice.
[Venice Lithographs].
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This is a set of 11 c. 1890 lithographs of Venice, Italy, after the photography of Carlo Naya. All 11 images are lithographed versions of photographs taken by Carlo Naya, an Italian photographer known for his work relating to Venice. (more details)
Reconstructing Italy after World War I.
Vio Prestito Nazionale.
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A spectacular large-format post-World War I (1914 - 1918) c. 1920 propaganda broadside and map of Italy promoting the Sixth National Loan (VIo Prestito Nazionale) by the famous Italian illustrator Giovanni Capranesi. In the frame of an Italian baroque window, the map illustrates Italy against a blue sky. Italy takes the form of a honeycomb, with hundreds of 'honeybees' diligently working to rebuild the war-ravaged nation. (more details)
The best large-format pre-Napoleonic map of the Kingdom of Naples.
Atlante del regno di Napoli - Ridotto in VI. Fogli da G.A. Rizzi-Zannoni, Geografo di Sua Maestà Siciliana.
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A striking c. 1805 folding map of the Kingdom of Naples - the largest and most impressive map of that region yet published. It was made by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni, one of the greatest Italian cartographers of his time, and published during an era of rapid political transitions in southern Italy, a result of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. (more details)
The Mighty Matterhorn in splendid topographic detail.
Haack Bild und Karte., No. 3. Monte Rosa - Matterhorn...
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This is a massive (28 x 77 in.) c. 1917 Justus Perthes wall map of a portion of the Alps along the Italian-Swiss border, including the famous Matterhorn. Published at the height of the early 20th-century alpine mountaineering boom, it provides a meticulous topographical overview of the Monte Rosa-Matterhorn region, one of the most challenging and storied areas for mountaineering in the world. (more details)
One of the most desirable and attractive 17th century maps of Malta.
Insula Malta accuratissime Delineata, Urbibus, et Fortalitiis.
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A fine c. 1680 map of Malta and Gozo by the Dutch Golden Age cartography Frederick De Wit. This is one of the most decorative maps of Malta to appear in the 18th century. Centered on Malta and Gozo, it covers the surrounding seas as far north as Sicily and ... (more details)
Gardasee, guarding the frontier.
Der Gardasee und seine nächste Umgebung.
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A c. 1890 map and set of views of Lake Garda, Italy, produced by the Kartographisches Institut, based in Hildburghausen. It was intended for German-speaking tourists, who were drawn to Garda despite the relatively recent fighting during the Italian Risorgimento, continued territorial divisions, and simmering tensions. (more details)
Last Gasps of Italian Fascism.
La libera America promette dollari e lavoro agli Italiani...
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This is a large-format 1944 Dante Coscia Italian fascist, anti-American propaganda poster. Intended to instill fear of the U.S. and Allied occupation of Italy, the poster stokes anti-Black racism, a common theme in Italian fascist propaganda, especially as the regime's control of the Italian Peninsula was slipping. (more details)
Follows the 36th Infantry from Salerno to Austria.
Campaigns of the 36th Infantry Division in World War II. Campaigns in Italy. The 36th Infantry Division Campaigns in France Germany Austria.
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This is a set of two 1945 World War II pictorial route maps of Italy, France, Germany, and Austria following the 36th Infantry Division's progress during the conflict. Yellow and red bursts mark important battles, including Salerno, Rome, Vesoul, and Hagenau. Other pictorial elements reference life encountered along the way, such as children asking for chocolate and the wonder of French champagne. (more details)
Anti-American.
La Preghiera di Roosevelt.
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Printed in 1944 during World War II and shortly after the Allies seized Rome and the D-Day landings in Normandy, this anti-American anti-Roosevelt broadside was published by Italian fascists to expose what they considered to be American hypocrisy. It references American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 'D-Day Prayer,' broadcast on June 6, 1944. The broadside centers on an imposing caricature of Roosevelt kneeling with hands folded and eyes closed, as if in prayer. To both his right and left, text bubbles appear, almost ephemerally as if in a dream, stating Roosevelt's wishes for the coming battles and, ultimately, final unconditional victory. Each phrase is accompanied by a vignette that does not illustrate Roosevelt's words, but what the Italian fascist creator of this broadside wants its viewers to understand from the words. Perhaps, the creator even references the reality of what the war had become, instead of Roosevelt's sanitized and propagandized pleas to Almighty God. (more details)
Dominant Mapping of Italy of the 17th Century. First State.
Novissima et Accuratissima totius Italiae, Corsicae et Sardiniae Descriptio Per Fredericum De Wit Amstelodami.
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This is a first-state example of Frederik de Wit's map of Italy, engraved as early as 1671. (more details)
Italian Catholics' Information War against Mao Zedong.
This is a very scarce 1954 Italian persuasive poster prepared by Giovanni Luciolli denouncing the Chinese Communist Party and 'Bolshevism' more broadly. It reflects the evolving politics and internationalization of the Cold War; by this time, Italy was safely within the Western camp, but fears of global Communist conspiracies were widespread, particularly on the right-wing, in Western democracies. (more details)
Captivus Vaticani
St. Peter's and the Vatican.
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This is Richard Rummell's 1914 bird's-eye view of St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican in Rome - here in its only known example. When this view was drawn, the Vatican was in a precarious position, divested of its lands and maintaining an uneasy peace with the Italian State, which was not resolved until the Lateran Treaty of 1929. (more details)
'A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism...'
La Loro Pace.
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This is a powerful Italian anti-Communist Cold War propaganda poster printed c. 1953 by Gros-Monti. Referencing the Korean War, the poster emphasizes the Communist threat to (Western) Europe and the specter of a Korean-style conflict on the continent. It was most likely intended to bolster anti-Communist political parties in the run-up to Italy's 1953 general election. (more details)
Finely executed view of Geona.
De Moille van Genua.
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An exceptional one-of-a-kind c. 1797 pen and ink view of Genoa, Italy. The finely executed drawing looks on the port of Genoa from the southeast - as a ship approaching the city would see it. The iconic 1543 lighthouse of Genoa, known as the Lanterna, appears prominently at left, while at right, the Jesuit church of Santi Ambrogio e Andrea is apparent. Several ships bearing a Dutch flag, lie anchored in the harbor. (more details)
Hoefnagel's Eyewitness Views of Venice.
Augusti apud Venetos Templi D. Marci Accuratissima Effiguratio/ Palatii Senatorii Apud Venetos Conflagratio.
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These are Joris Hoefnagel's depictions of Saint Mark's Square in Venice, included in the fifth volume of Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg's Civitatis Orbis Terrarum, the first published collection of city plans and views. (more details)
Grandest 17th century map of Corsica.
Isola di Corsica.
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This is a superb example of Vincenzo Coronelli's 1692 map of Corsica, one of the most beautifully engraved large-scale depictions of the island of the 17th century. (more details)
La Superba.
Status Reipublicæ Genuensis nec non Prospectuum Celeberrimæ ejusdem Urbis et Portus Geographica simul et Topographica Descriptio.
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A beautiful old-color example of Johann Baptist Homann's c. 1716 map of the Republic of Genoa. Its appealing layout combines both a map and a view, along with an elaborate cartouche and vignettes. (more details)
Contested breadbasket of the Mediterranean.
Regnorum Siciliae et Sardiniae nec non Melitae, seu Maltae Insuale cum adjectis Italiae, et Africae Litoribus Nova Tabula.
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A beautiful example of Johann Baptist Homann's 1710 map of Sicily and Sardinia, Italy. The map illustrates the islands as they were vigorously contended for by the Spanish Hapsburgs and the French Bourbons during the War of Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714). (more details)
One of the Earliest Acquirable Views of Venice.
Contrafehtung der fürnemen Statt Venedig sampt den umbligenden Inseln.
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This is Sebastian Munster's attractive 1598 woodcut view of Venice. It displays the famous city, emphasizing the turbulent waters beyond the sand banks and the calm shallows in which the city lies protected. Many of the city's famous buildings and churches are labeled, including the iconic Piazza San Marco. (more details)