Europe
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Liverpool's rival, located a few miles to the east, was the great industrial city of Manchester. This facsimile, too, has been enlarged one-fifth to reveal its wealth of detail and was prepared by Surveyor William Swire.
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| Size: 20¼" x 24¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Founded in 1606 by the Elector Palatine, Frederick IV, the fortress town included a star-shaped citadel almost the size of the civilian settlement. From Merian's Topographica Germaniae.
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| Size: 9¼" x 12½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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In this impressive Lombard city on its unusual site, the Gonzagas constructed some of Italy's most magnificent buildings from 1328 to 1705. Our reproduction is from the engraving in de Wit's Theatrum Praecipuorum Totius Europea Urbium.
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| Size: 14¼" x 19½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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The first volume of Braun and Hogenberg's city atlas, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, included this attractive view of one of Italy's most important cities. Its concentric street pattern reflects periods of expansion beyond successive rings of fortifications.
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| Size: 13¼" x 18¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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The most regular of the planned 13th century towns of France, Monpazier was but one of several depicted during the 1850's in Didron's Annales Archeologiques. Those listed below are similar in format.
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| Size: 5¾" x 8" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $22.50 |
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Date: 1764 |
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One of the most unusual and picturesque communities in the world occupies this steep, rocky island off the Norman coast of France. A single street winds up the slope from the entrance gate to the peak, where the ancient Abbey dominates the skyline. The reproduction is from Belini's Petit Atlas Maritime.
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| Size: 8¾" x 6½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $22.50 |
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Sigsimund von Herb-erstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum included this first printed depiction of Moscow. In the mid-l6th century most of the population lived within the protective walls of the fortress or Kremlin.
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| Size: 9¼" x 11¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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This handsome engraving from Pierre d'Avity's Neuve Archontologia Cosmica shows the Russian capital as it appeared in the middle of the l7th century.
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| Size: 11" x 14¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Moscow grew outward from the original walls of the Kremlin in a series of concentric rings, each representing the location of older city fortifications. By the early years of the 19th century it had expanded far beyond its first restricted site. Our facsimile is from an engraving published in Prague as a folded book illustration, the title of which we have been unable to trace.
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| Size: 27" x 21¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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Meyer's Hand-Atlas included this 19th century plan of Munich, which highlighted the city's numerous gardens and green spaces. Elevations of prominent churches and public buildings line the bottom of the sheet.
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| Size: 14" x 15½" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $32.50 |
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