Fano.
Rare Lafreri School town plan of Fano, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze Pri...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2012
Parma.
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Parma, engraved by Paolo Forlani of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze Pri...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Napoli.
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town-plan of Naples, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, ...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2017
OSTIA (ROMA)
Rare Lafreri town-plan of seaport of OSTIA near Rome, engraved by Zenoi/Paolo Forlani, , of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, dated 1567, first published in "Il Primo...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $460
Sold in 2017
ROMA.
Rare Lafreri town-plan of Rome, engraved by Zenoi/Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, dated 1567, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et F...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $645
Sold in 2017
Istria sotto il dominio veneto..
Fine map of the Istrian peninsula, based on a map of the Venetian patrician Pietro Coppo (1469-1556), probably the most prolific Italian cartographer before Gastaldi.The ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1569
Selling price: $6000
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Genova (Genoa)
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town-plan of Genoa, with Jerusalem wind rose and index of 25 locations, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, fi...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1569
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2018
![VENETIA [Venice]](/uploads/cache/37625-250x250.jpg)
VENETIA [Venice]
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town plan of Venice, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, ...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1569
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2016
Italia mit den Dreien Furnemsten Inseln Corsica / Sardinia und Sicilia.
One of the earliest woodblock maps of Italy. It shows the area from Marseille to Albania, including the Adriatic Sea, also the islands of Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia. Th...
Place & Date: Basel, 1569
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023
![MIRANDOLA. [Mirandola]](/uploads/cache/47582-250x250.jpg)
MIRANDOLA. [Mirandola]
Rare bird's-eye view of the town of Mirandola. Engraved and published by Donato Bertelli.Some examples are found, in fact, in the work Le vere imagini et descritioni del...
Place & Date: Venice, 1569
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
![MESSINA. [Messina]](/uploads/cache/47583-250x250.jpg)
MESSINA. [Messina]
Rare bird's-eye view of the town of MessinaEngraved and published by Donato Bertelli.Underneath the town view a blank space.Some examples are found, in fact, in the work ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1569
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2022
Der Statt Rom in Aller Welde Bekant Contrafehtung nach Jetziger Gelegenheit
An early plan view of Rome and the Vatican City. Many monuments of the ancient time, like the Coliseum, the Pantheon, Castello St. Angelo and the aqueducts are shown. Ger...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1570
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2017
Regni Neapolitani Verissima secundum antiquorum et recentiorum traditionem descriptio, Pyrrho Ligorio Auct.
Very fine map of Southern Italy, including the towns of Ascoli, Piceno, Napoli, Fogia, Bari, Catanzaro and the most northern tip of Sicily with Messina.Orientation: top i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $265
Sold in 2020
Regni Neapolitani.
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571
Selling price: $425
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Tabula Italiae. (Italy)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Italy and including Corsica, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabo...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Pedemontanae Vicinorumque Regionum.
Fine map including the Italian coast from Monaco through Genoa to Rapallo, the map shows the Po River. Milan in the upper right-hand corner and Turin in the center of the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2015
Ancona civitas. (Port of Ancona in a first edition)
Fine first issue of one of this very attractive, early view of Ancona, one of the principal Italian ports on the Adriatic sea. The city’s distinctive harbor is shown te...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2018
1) Patavini Territorii .. 2) Apuliae Quae Olim Ia Pygia, ..
Two maps on one plate. From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $115
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Italiae Novissima Descriptio.
Original copper engraving, published 1572/74 in a French text edition of the Atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' at Christopher Platin in Antwerp. A highly decorative and ear...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572/1574
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2012
Die Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor. . .
An early woodcut map of the ancient Rome by Sebastian Münster. From the German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmography, titled Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller L...
Place & Date: Basle, 1574
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
![[ Italy ]](/uploads/cache/27235-250x250.jpg)
[ Italy ]
On verso a small map of Italy.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia w...
Place & Date: Basle, ca.1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2009
![[ Milan ]](/uploads/cache/27242-250x250.jpg)
[ Milan ]
On verso a woodcut representing a view of the city of Milan. On recto a portrait of an Emperor and a woodcut of a countryside with a village.From a French text edition of...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1575
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
De la Cosmographie. Rauenne. Boloigne.
Text page with imaginary town views of Bologna and Ravenna.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Sebast...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1575
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2012
La figure de la place ou sut iadiz la cite de Rome avec ses portes quand elie estoit en sa grand fleur.
Plan of ancient Rome. On recto a child coming out of a bull. From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Seba...
Place & Date: Basle, ca.1575
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2012
Marcha Anconae, olim Picenum. 1572.
The Ancona region along the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Oceans, mountains, rivers, lakes, cities and important towns are detailed. No text on verso.Taken from a larger she...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017
Urbis Romae situs que adhuc conspiuntur..
A bird's-eye view of Rome during the year 1570, 3 local figures lower right. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by Georg...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
![L'ampiissima marina città di Vinegia con molte idole, che lestano datorno. [Venice]](/uploads/cache/43027-250x250.jpg)
L'ampiissima marina città di Vinegia con molte idole, che lestano datorno. [Venice]
An early birds-eye view of the islands of Venice (Venezia) from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. All major churches are titled along with key landmarks such as the Arse...
Place & Date: Basle, 1558 / 1575
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2019
Pedemontanae Vicinorumque Regionum.
Fine map including the Italian coast from Monaco till Genoa. Milan in the upper righthand corner and Turin in the center of the map.
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Regni Neapolitani verissima.
Very fine map of Southern Italy, including the towns of Ascoli, Piceno, Naples, Foggia, Bari, Catanzaro and most northern tip of Sicily with Messina.The map is based on P...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2023
Mediolanum Metropolis Insubrum, vulgo Milano . . .
Very desirable and early town plan of Milan. (Milano) "The plan view conveys an impressive picture of the city's distinctively regular layout. The old fortification...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2014
![Genua Ligurum Domina [on sheet with] Florentia Urbs est Insignis Hetruariae, olim Fluentia Dicta.](/uploads/cache/33676-250x250.jpg)
Genua Ligurum Domina [on sheet with] Florentia Urbs est Insignis Hetruariae, olim Fluentia Dicta.
Two very desirable and early town-views of Genoa and Florence in a second state. "GENOA (GENOVA): : "The trading port and city of Genoa is presented from an i...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2017
Roma.
Very desirable and early town-plan of Rome in a first state. With a numbered key (1-101) in lower part.From the Civitates Orbis. "This engraving of Rome shows the ci...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2013
Ancona Civitas Piceni Celeberrima, ad Mare Adriaticum Posita . . .
Very desirable and early town-plan of Ancona with a numbered key (1-45) in bottom.. "Ancona is seen here from Adriatic in bird's-eye view.The curved natural harbour ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
Haec est Nobilis, & Florens Illa Neapolis . . .
Very desirable and early town-plan of Naples with a numbered key (1-71) in bottom and in a first edition. "Naples is presented from a plan-like bird's-eye view. The ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
![Parma [on sheet with] Sena [and] Panhormus, Palermo vulgariter, ... [and] Drepanum (Trapani)](/uploads/cache/33680-250x250.jpg)
Parma [on sheet with] Sena [and] Panhormus, Palermo vulgariter, ... [and] Drepanum (Trapani)
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Parma, Siena, Palermo and Trapani. "PARMA : "Parma is shown from an elevated viewpoint. The city is divided in half ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Messana, Urbs est Sicilie maxima, situ, opulentia, & tuta navium statione.
A very desirable and early town-plan of Messina on Sicily, with a numbered key (1-167) in lower part. "Messina is shown from the east, in a view looking down upon th...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2020
Orvieto / Lauretum.
Orivetum, in Italian Orvieto, a town in the well-known Italian region of Tuscia. Braun says, "Orvieto is a city in the heart of Etruria, lying on the flat top of a v...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1577
Selling price: $245
Sold in 2020
Messana, Urbs est Sicilie maxima, situ, opulentia, & tuta navium statione.
A very desirable and early town-plan of Messina on Sicily, with a numbered key (1-167) in lower part. "Messina is shown from the east, in a view looking down upon th...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $231
Sold in 2019
Ancona Civitas Piceni Celeberrima, ad Mare Adriaticum Posita . . .
Very desirable and early town-plan of Ancona with a numbered key (1-45) in bottom.. "Ancona is seen here from Adriatic in bird's-eye view.The curved natural harbour ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2021
Roma.
Very desirable and early of Rome in a first state. With a numbered key (1-101) in lower part. "This engraving of Rome shows the city around 1550 in its imposing sett...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2022
Italia totius orbis olim domatricis nova et exactiss descriptio Jacobo Castaldo auctore.
Map of Italy from the extremely rare first edition, here the state without the privilege. Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's signature is in the lower left...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Selling price: $4500
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![VENETIA. [Venice]](/uploads/cache/24880-250x250.jpg)
VENETIA. [Venice]
Uncommon plan of Venice from Francesco Valegio's townbook: Raccolta di le piv illustri et farmose citta di tutto il mondo.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1579
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
Italiae Novissima Descriptio, Auctore Iacopo Gastaldo Pedemontano.
A beautiful map of Italy based on an earlier work done by Gastaldi. Features a vignette of Neptune and a female mermaid companion, sea monsters ships and decorative carto...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
Italiae Novissima descriptio. . .
Very fine map of Italy after Giacomo Gastaldi. Embellished with a title cartouche, vessels, sea monsters and sea gods. Latin text on verso.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) wa...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1230
Sold in 2015
Italiae Novissima descriptio. . .
A very fine map of Italy by Abraham Ortelius, after Giacomo Gastaldi. Embellished with a title cartouche, vessels, sea monsters and mermaids and Neptune. The map is fille...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2018
Venetia. (Venice)
Precise, beautiful bird's-eye view of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding lagoon is animated with a great variety of sailing vess...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $2050
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Genua.../ Florentia.
A fine set of two views on one sheet, the upper view showing Genua. The lower view shows a perspective of the city of Florentia.From the greatest publication in this genr...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $720
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Rimini.
A bird's eye view showing Rimini.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun g...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $480
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Catana urbs Siciliae clarissima patria sc.te Agathae virgin..
A beautiful print of Catania with in the background Mount Etna. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Cano...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $535
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Parma.../ Sena.../ Palermo.../ Drepanum?
A fine set of four views on one sheet, the uppers views showing Parma and Siena. The lowers views showing a perspective of the city of Palermo and Trapani.From the greate...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $500
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Perusia gratu musis in Tuscia domicilium. (Perugia)
A view showing Perugia.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathered to...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $480
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Antiquae urbis Romae imago accuratiss..
A view showing ancient Rome. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathe...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $1560
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Parma.../ Sena.../ Palermo.../ Drepanum?
A fine set of four views on one sheet, the uppers views showing Parma and Siena. The lowers views showing a perspective of the city of Palermo and Trapani.From the greate...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $500
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Genua.../ Florentia.
A fine set of two views on one sheet, the upper view showing Genoa. The lower view shows a perspective of the city of Florence.From the greatest publication in this genre...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $600
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Messana..
A fine view of Messana.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathered to...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $500
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Antiquae urbis Romae imago accuratiss..
A view showing ancient Rome. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathe...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $2400
Sold
Antiquae urbis Romae imago accuratiss.
A view showing ancient Rome. From the greatest publication in this genre!.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2013
Genua... / Florentia.
A fine set of two views on one sheet, the upper showing Genoa. The lower view shows a perspective of the city of Florence.From the greatest publication in this genre!. T...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2020
De Italia Florentia nobilissima Hethruriae ciuitas, deformata nostra tempora.
Early bird\'s eye view of Florence. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Venetiarum amplissima & maritima urbs cum multis circumiacentibus insulis.
Bird's-eye view of Venice. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Haec est Nobilis, & Florens Illa Neapolis...
A very nice, large early town-plan of the city of Naples. On bottom, a numbered key (1-71) indicates the most important places of the city."Naples is presented from ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1580
Selling price: $480
Sold in 2018
Calatia vulgo Caiazo.
Rare bird's-eye view of Caiazzo.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun ga...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $53
Sold in 2020
![Nocerra In Appennino monte [together on one sheet with] Castel Novo.](/uploads/cache/42803-250x250.jpg)
Nocerra In Appennino monte [together on one sheet with] Castel Novo.
Bird's-eye view of Nocera Umbra and Castelnuovo. - From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2020
Urbis Romae Descriptio.
First state of three. A rare view of Rome from the Lafreri-School. Below the view there is a numbered legend of 114 references to notable places and monuments, distribute...
Place & Date: Rome, 1582
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2019
Italiae Veteris Specimen.
Ortelius' map of Ancient Italy which appeared in his beginning in 1584. The map is based upon Gastaldi's map of Italy, supplemented with classical sources. Signed and dat...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $951
Sold in 2013
Perusini agri, exactissima ..
A first imprint. Very fine map centred on the town of Perugia. The map is based on Egnatio Danti's 1580 map of Perugia.Copper engraving with Latin text on verso. Abraham ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2008
Caroli Sigonii von Geschichten des Königreichs Italiae Fünffsehn Bücher in sich begreiffende die herrliche Historien vom Jahr Christi 57o. anbiß ins 12.oo. Jahr.
Early description of Italy, being the German translation of Carolus Sigonius' "De Regno Italia Libri XV", (Venice, 1574).This German edition published in Strasb...
Place & Date: Bernhart, Strassburg, 1584
Selling price: $6900
Sold in 2019
Europae Tabula septima (Sicily and Sardinia).
A very decorative, large, early map showing Sicily and Sardinia by Mercator. The map first appeared in 1578. Embellished with sailing ships and sea monsters. It shows als...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1584
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2022
Gallipolis..
Very decorative view of Gallipolis from the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates". Compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedr...
Place & Date: Cologne 1585
Selling price: $300
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Roma.
This large, exceptionally decorative print depicts the city of Rome as it was around 1570. Still, the structures of Ancient Rome are still much in evidence.From the famou...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1585
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2018
Italia Mit Den Dreyen Furnempften Inseln / Corsica / Sardinia / und Sicilia
This charming wood block printed map of Italy, Corsica, Sicily and Sardinia was published in the 1588-edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. Mountains, villages,...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2014
Bononia Alma Studior Mater.
A beautiful bird's-eye plan of Bologna - seat of sciences. With fortified with moats and walls, the city is seen from the north in this high bird's-eye view. At the cente...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1588
Selling price: $440
Sold in 2020
Brescia Episcopanus Mediolanu Ducatus.
Brescia by Mercator, first edition !
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1589
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2010
Italia Gallica, Sive Gallia Cisalpina.
This map belongs to a series of historical maps known as the Parergon Theatri which appeared from 1579 onwards, sometimes as a separate publication and sometimes incorpor...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $200
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Italia Gallica, Sive Gallia Cisalpina.
This map belongs to a series of historical maps known as the Parergon Theatri which appeared from 1579 onwards, sometimes as a separate publication and sometimes incorpor...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $205
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Roma.
Though a contemporaneous view, the structures of Ancient Rome are still much in evidence.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and writ...
Place & Date: Cologne 1590
Selling price: $1000
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Venetia. (Venice)
Precise, beautiful bird's-eye view of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding lagoon is animated with a great variety of sailing vess...
Place & Date: Cologne 1590
Selling price: $2400
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De Istria Peninsula.
On recto an early map of the province of Istria, including the Gulf of Triest (143x156 mm).From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissa...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $40
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Messina.
A of the city of Messina on Sicily by Matteo Florimi (1540-1613). Below the view is a numbered key (1-167) with a key to locations.Florimi was a print-and-book dealer an...
Place & Date: Sienna, c. 1590
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
Neapolis.
On recto an early birds-eye view of Naples. On verso a city view of Tivoli. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.S...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $67
Sold in 2012