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SANSON, Nicolas (1600-67). L' Italie divisée suivant l' estendue de toutes ses souverainetés ... Paris: chez H. Jaillot, [n.d.]. Large engraved map of Italy on 2 sheets, joined, hand-coloured in outline, title and scale cartouches (split at join, a few small holes in blank areas, some short tears and fraying at edges, some light spotting and browning), 590 x 880mm.
With 7 other maps of Italy including Abraham Ortelius's Italiae veteris specimen ([Amsterdam, n.d.], repaired hole with some loss), Nicolaus Visscher's Tabula Italiae, Corsicae, Sardinae, et adjacentium Regnorum ([Amsterdam, c.1690], a very decorative, illustrated map but torn at centrefold), ?Merian's ITalia ([n.p., n.d., but late 17th-century) and Frederick de Wit's Novissima et Accuratissima totius Italiae, Corsicae et Sardiniae descriptio (Amsterdam, [n.d.]). (8)
With 7 other maps of Italy including Abraham Ortelius's Italiae veteris specimen ([Amsterdam, n.d.], repaired hole with some loss), Nicolaus Visscher's Tabula Italiae, Corsicae, Sardinae, et adjacentium Regnorum ([Amsterdam, c.1690], a very decorative, illustrated map but torn at centrefold), ?Merian's ITalia ([n.p., n.d., but late 17th-century) and Frederick de Wit's Novissima et Accuratissima totius Italiae, Corsicae et Sardiniae descriptio (Amsterdam, [n.d.]). (8)
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