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Naples, 1848. 43 x 50 cm (17 x 19,75 inches).. Original antique lithograph, original hand color in outline. This sheet with two maps was published in Benedetto Marzolla’s rare atlas ‘Atlante Geografico...’. Benedetto Marzolla (Brindisi, March 14, 1801 – Naples, May 10, 1858) was an Italian cartographer and geographer. In Naples he was a statistics editor in the Ministry of the Interior and a topographic engineer in the Royal Topographical Office. He was the author of over 170 maps, including topographical, chorographic and geographical, collected in atlases of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and in universal geographical atlases. Benedetto Marzolla was born in Brindisi to Carlo and Elisabetta They. He was educated at the pious schools of the Piarist Fathers in Brindisi and immediately showed an aptitude for mathematics and science subjects, as well as a real passion for geography, maps and drawing. Brindisi - Portico of the cloister of the monastery complex of the former pious schools. In 1819 he… Read More

Frankfurt, around 1670. 29.3 x 34,3 cm (11.5 x 13,5 inches).. Original antique very rare copper engraving. Printed and published in,Theatrum Europeum’ Impressive fireworks display around the artificially constructed pointed rock with obelisk and ruler's medallion initials on the obelisk 'IG'. In the foreground there are fountains in the water, in the background a church tower. Theatrum Europaeum is the title of a German-language historical work founded by Matthäus Merian and published between 1633 and 1738 in 21 quarto volumes. The series of chronicles is particularly important because of its timely descriptions of the Thirty Years' War and the reign of Louis XIV, as well as its 720 copper plates, around 140 of which were engraved by Merian himself. The volumes are between around 400 and 1500 pages. In very good condition. Some creases at the center fold.