"Italia", Bry, Theodore de
Subject: Italy
Period: 1597 (circa)
Publication: Romanae Urbis Topographia
Color: Black & White
Size:
16.5 x 13 inches
41.9 x 33 cm
This is a very rare, copper engraved map of Italy. It was published in Jean-Jacques Boissard's six-volume description of Roman antiquities (1597-1602). The map is finely engraved with a stippled sea filled with ships and a fierce sea monster, and graced with a garland draped title cartouche. The map is densely packed with place names and extends to show Corsica, most of Sardinia and just a bit of Sicily. There is no record of this map having been on the market in the past 25 years.
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Condition: B+
Remargined at bottom margin with the border in expert facsimile. Issued folded, now flattened.
