Ancient Italy and the Dalmatian Coast, d'Anville Rollin Atlas, 1818

€ 285

Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)

Date: 1818
Mapmaker / artist: Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, cartographer
Publisher: Ledoux et Tenré, Paris
Technique: Copper Engraving
Coloring: Uncolored
Condition: Good
Reference: BG-14399-16

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Condition

Light uneven toning, browner toward the edges. Marked handling soiling along all four edges. Foxing over much of the margin. Slight wear at the bottom right and top right corners. Minor edge wear, shallow nicks along the bottom and right. A pale brown tide line runs along the lower margin.

About this sheet

An original copper engraved map, uncolored, of ancient Italy proper, from Liguria, Bononia and Ravenna south to the north coast of Sicily, with the Dalmatian shore across the Adriatic. The Mer Adriatique, the Mer Tyrrhene and the Golfe de Tarente are lettered, and the regions are named in French: Etrurie, Picenum, Samnium, Campanie, Apouille, Lucanie and Bruttium. Florentia, Perusia, Ravenna, Ancona, Rome, Capua, Neapolis, Beneventum, Paestum, Tarentum, Brundusium, Crotona and Rhegium are placed, and Cannae is marked near the Aufidus in Apulia. Ilva and Capreae lie offshore with the Aeolian islands to the south, and the Dalmatian coast carries Salona, Issa, Pharus and Raguse.

The cartouche at lower left reads L'Italie proprement dite, pour l'intelligence de l'Histoire Romaine de Rollin, par d'Anville, Géographe ord.re du Roi. The plate is numbered Pl. 16 above the upper right corner of the border. Three scale bars stand below the cartouche: Milles des Romains, valant 754 Toises., Stades des Grecs, dont 8 valent un Mille. and Lieues Françaises, de 3000 Pas Géometriques. The graticule is numbered in degrees, and a light center fold runs through the double sheet.

The plate comes from the Atlas de Géographie Ancienne, published in Paris in 1818 by Ledoux et Tenré and printed by Didot le jeune to accompany the works of Charles Rollin (1661 to 1741), the French historian, author of the Histoire ancienne and the Histoire romaine. Its maps are engraved after the originals of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697 to 1782). In the foreword, signed by Ambroise Tardieu, géographe-graveur, Tardieu writes that the maps were copied with religious fidelity and that, charged with reviewing the proofs, he corrected only negligences and faults of execution. The map serves Rollin's Roman history for the conquest of the peninsula and the wars fought on Italian soil.

This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.