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| Keywords: 1794 D'Anville Map of Italy - Geographicus - Italy-anville-1794.jpg An rare and beautiful 1794 map of Italy by J B B d'Anville Covers Italy from Switzerland south to Sicily including Corsica Sardinia and parts of North Africa and Dalmatia Italy itself is divided into various states duchies fiefs and kingdoms These include the States of the Church Tuscany Venice Parma Modena Naples Savoy Milan Piedmont Genoa etc Offers an extraordinary level of detail throughout noting post roads towns castles monasteries forests swamps rivers cities and mountains There are considerable notations in the upper margin lower margin and in the Gulf of Genoa regarding the activities of Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy These notations are in a light pencil and can be removed entirely at the buyer's request For now we have chosen to leave them as they are not disfiguring and we believe add a bit of historical context to the map Published by Laurie and Whittle as plate no 16 in the 1797 edition of Thomas Kitchin's General Atlas 1794 dated Size in 20 23 5 object history credit line accession number Italy-anville-1794 Kitchin Thomas <i>Kitchin's General Atlas describing the Whole Universe being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care and augmented from the last edition of D'Anville and Robert with many improvements by other eminent geographers engraved on Sixty-Two plates comprising Thirty Seven maps </i> Laurie Whittle London 1797 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Old maps of Italy 1794 maps | ||||
