IL PORTO DI MALTA.
Rare plan of the town of Valetta showing the counter attack of the army of Ascanio against the Turks. Thirteen departing Turkish galleys have been engraved within "P...
Place & Date: Venice, after 1564
Selling price: $4200
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Ultimo disegno delli forti di Malta uenuto novamente. . . Ant. Lafrerj Romae formis 1565 de Mese Augusti.
A rare and important map showing the Great Siege of Malta which took place in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire invaded the island, then held by the Knights HospitallerThe Kni...
Place & Date: Rome, 1565
Selling price: $6400
Sold in 2010
DISEGNO VERO DELLA NVOVA CITTA DI MALTA.
Rare fortification plan of the town of Valletta. Engraved by Paolo Forlani (active 1561-1577).With hatching to highlight the ditch on the landward side of Valletta. It se...
Place & Date: Venice 1566
Selling price: $1500
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[Double-page woodcut map of Malta]
Very rare wood-block map of Malta, one of the earliest obtainable separately issued map of the island. Includes several sailing ships and a large compass card to the righ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1567
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2011
Malta.
Bird's-eye view of Malta "A schematic drawing shows Malta with a strongly fortified harbor. Fort St Elmo can be seen on the left, with Fort Sant'Angelo across the wa...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $111
Sold in 2021
Malta.
One of the earliest separate maps of Malta. Includes decorative cartouche, compass rose, sea monsters, sailing ship, etc. Nice wide margin example, with Italian text. Als...
Place & Date: Padova 1576
Selling price: $305
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Melita
One of the first delineations of the island of Malta.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1578
Malta olim Melita Insula.
Miniature map of Malta. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 1588. It seems th...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $210
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Malta olim Melita Insula.
Miniature map of Malta. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 1588. It seems th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Melita.
This tiny map, set into a sheet of text, is one of the earliest available maps of the strategically important Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo. The woodblock map s...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2010