A nice view of Tivoli from Merian’s “Topographia Italiae” published in Frankfurt in 1640. Mattheus Merian was a notable Swiss engraver, born in Basle in 1593, who subsequently studied in Zurich and then moved to Frankfurt where he met Theodore de Bry, whose daughter he married in 1617. They had numerous children together, including a daughter, Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, born in 1647. She became a pioneering naturalist and illustrator. Two of their sons followed Merian into publishing. In Frankfurt Mattheus Merian spent most of his working life and with Martin Zeiller (1589-1661), a German Geographer, and later with his own son, he produced a series of Topographia consisting of 21 volumes including a very large number of town plans as well as maps of most countries. He also took over and completed the later parts and editions of the Grand Voyages and Petits Voyages originally started by De Bry in 1590.
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Out of stockNice and detailed map of Lazio centered on Rome from “Parallela geographica Italiae veteris et novae”, a rare work by Philip Briet published in Paris in 1649 at Sebastian Cramoisy. [cod.306/15]
- Year: 1653
- Dimension: 198 x 144 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
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Rare copper engraving of the town from “Theatro delle citta’ d’Italia, con nova aggiunta” by Pietro Bertelli, pubblished by Francesco Bertelli in 1629. [cod.1146/15]
- Year: 1629
- Dimension: 116 x 176 mm
- Place of publication: Padova
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A rare copper engraved panorama of Rome taken from the really uncommon “Sachsischer Postillon” a kind of historic-geographic magazine published in Vienna in 1784. At top the portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III and a key to 82 point of interest numbered on the view. The author is George Hisler (signed in the lower right) who drawn Rome in curious German stile easily visible in the shape of the roofs and bell towers. Central fold as issued. In very good condition.
- Year: 1784
- Dimension: 180 x 300 mm
- Place of publication: Vienna
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Rare copper engraving from “Nova et Accurata Italiae Hoderniae Descriptio” published in Leiden by Bonaventura e A. Elsevir in 1627. [cod.316/15]
- Year: 1627
- Dimension: 244 x 176 mm
- Place of publication: Leiden
