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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. The elegant map of Abruzzo is taken from the "Atlas Major", a work in twelve volumes, one of which is dedicated to Italy, published in Amsterdam in 1662-1672 by Johannes Blaeu.
The table shows the whole of Abruzzo with part of the countryside of Rome and Molise; with . top right, an elaborate cartouche with the title in the center and animated with knights and noble coats of arms and, bottom left, the distance scale.
Copper engraving on laid paper with coeval coloring with clear impression without defects, wide margins and verso in French; diffuse browning accentuated at the edges and central editorial crease.
Maximum image size 380x495 mm. (sheet 452x555mm.)
Insured shipping with costs for mainland destination (Italy, Spain and Portugal) 67074033
