Europe
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Turin's rectangular Roman plan was extended and modified during the Renaissance period. The city's magnificent streets and squares can be seen in our large and splendid plan from Blaeu's Theatrum Saubaudiae.
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| Size: 20¼" x 29½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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Founded by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1566 to celebrate a naval victory over the Turks, Valletta developed as a rich and powerful city on its commanding site along the southeast coast of Malta. This detailed view shows the city as planned by Francesco Laparelli and Geralamo Caesar.
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| Size: 16" x 20" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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One of the earliest works of urban topography was Hartman Schedel's Liber Cronicarum, published in 1493. Known more familiarly as the Nuremberg Chronicle, the book includes a number of fascinating woodcuts illustrating cities of the known world.
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| Size: 7¾" x 21" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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This fine view of Venice is from Braun and Hogen-berg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum. It reveals clearly the intricate pattern of islands and canals in this unique city.
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| Size: 13¼" x 18¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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The town, chateau, and gardens of Versailles as planned by Le Notre for Louis XIV can be seen in elaborate detail on this handsome print. Drawn by Delagrive in 1746, this is perhaps the most accurate and decorative of all the plans showing this great landscape composition.
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| Size 12½" x 19" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $30.00 |
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This romantic, stylized view shows the walled city whose skyline is punctuated by towered fortifications and tall steeples, amidst a domesticated landscape.
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| Size: 7½ " x 20¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Frederick de Wit's atlas Theatrum Praecipuorum Totius Europae Urbium includes this elaborately detailed plan-view of the capital of Austria.
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| Size: 14¼" x 18¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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This superb view shows the magnificent city of the Hapsburgs in the early years of Maria Theresa's reign. By that time the old walled town had become surrounded by a ring of newer districts separated from the fortification by a belt of open space. An extensive legend identifies all the important buildings.
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| Size: 16½" x 24¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock paper: $27.50 |
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This superb plan showing the Polish capital in the 18th century includes an extensive legend identifying dozens of buildings and important locations. The original engraving has been enlarged fifty percent to bring out its wealth of detail.
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| Size: 19¾" x 26¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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This tiny Dutch town was founded in 1565 and fortified by order of William the Silent in 1583. Our reproduction is from the original in Joannes Blaeu's Stedenatlas van de Vereenigde Nederlanden.
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| Size: 8¾" x 8¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock paper: $27.50 |
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