This beautiful engraving shows a group of people gathered in the countryside, dancing, playing music and preparing to play La Cuccagna, so named after a mythical land of plenty that is always beyond reach.

Dimensions (W x H): 60 x 48 / 23½ x 19

An attractive map of South Africa with four inset maps of Contorni del Capo, Distritto di Giorgio, Contorni della Citta di Graham and Citta del Capo (Cape Town). This is from a very attractive and scarce atlas by a cartographer from Naples. Marzolla prints extensive notes with his maps, listing his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 45 / 19½ x 17½

George Vivian (1798-1873), draughtsman and painter from London, travelled through Spain and Portugal making sketches of many old buildings and towns. On his return Vivian made the drawings famous publishing a collection of lithographs under the title "Scenery of Portugal & Spain". The work consists ...

Dimensions (W x H): 38 x 13.5 / 15 x 5½

Latin text below the map. Title shown above map with decorative border showing kneeling cherubs. Some text shows through but in fine condition overall

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.1 / 5½ x 4

Porcacchi’s famous work ran into many editions, betwee 1576 and 1713. This attractive small map, with north to the right, occupies half of the page, with a description of the Island beneath it. The decorations to the text are coloured

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10 / 5½ x 4

A beautiful little map of Turkey from Porcacchi’s famous atlas, also showing Crete and many of the Aegean Islands. Atlases of islands were very popular at the time. The map occupies the centre of a larger page ( 19 x 29.5cm) with text in Italian above and below.

Dimensions (W x H): 17 x 13 / 6½ x 5