Bird’s eye plan of the city of Pisa. The city sits on both banks of the River Arno with bridges spanning the river at left and right. Finely engraved to show a great amount of detail. Coat of arms and a key to the principal buildings. The “Campanile” is recognizable as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 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. [cod.268/15]
Pisa
Bird’s eye plan of the city of Pisa. The city sits on both banks of the River Arno with bridges spanning the river at left and right. Finely engraved to show a great amount of detail. Coat of arms and a key to the principal buildings. The “Campanile” is recognizable as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. [cod.268/15]
- Dimension: 195 x 270 mm
- Place of publication: Frankfurt
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Copper engraving from “Curioses Staats-Kriegstheatrum in Bayern, Franken, Hispanien, Italien” published in Amburg in 1702 by J. Stridbeck and his son J. Stridbeck Junior. [cod.099/15]
- Year: 1725
- Dimension: 165 x 290 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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Out of stockAn interesting early map of the region of Lucca in Tuscany from Coronelli’s Corso Geografico Universale published in Venice in 1690. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli is widely recognised as one of Italy?s most famous and greatest cartographers. He received an ecclesiastical education at the convent of the Minor Conventuals and also studied theology in Rome. However, his interests in geography and cartography were awoken early in his ecclesiastical career and never suppressed. He made very famous globes
- Year: 1690
- Dimension: 448 x 600 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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Plan and fortification of the town from “Force D’Europe…” by G. Bodenehr published in Augsburg in 1725. Perfect condition. [cod.101/15]
- Year: 1725
- Dimension: 140 x 225 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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Detailed town plan view of Florence at the left and right side with a text about the city. Published in Bodenehr’s Curioses Staats und Kriegs Theatrum. Gabriel Bodenehr (1664 – 1758) was a copper engraver and publisher. In 1716 he bought the copper plates of Johann Stridbeck (1640 – 1716), revised and completed them with his own maps, views and plans, and published them in several works with different titles.
- Year: 1724
- Dimension: 175 x 275 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
