Ancient Italy (Italia) & Dalmatia by Melchior Tavernier. 1641 or later
Melchior Tavernier I the elder (1564-1641)
'Graveur et imprimeur ordinaire du Roy', brother of Gabriel.
Gabriel Tavernier (1566-1610)
Flemish engraver.
Melchior Tavernier II the younger (1594-1665)
Son of Gabriel. Engraver, mapseller and publisher 'dans l'Isle du Palais à la Sphère Royale', Paris. He sold most of his plates and equipment to Pierre Mariette in 1644.
Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1789)
Brother of Melchior. Began as a bookseller 'sur le quai de l'Horloge aux Trois Estoiles' à Paris. Became later a merchant, diplomat and traveller in Turkey, Persia, central Asia and the East Indies.
Antiquorum Italiae & Illyrici Occidentalis Episcopatuu Geographica descriptio.
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Category: Antique maps > Europe > Italy
Old, antique map of ancient Italy (Italia) & Dalmatia by Melchior Tavernier.
Title: Antiquorum Italiae & Illyrici Occidentalis Episcopatuu Geographica descriptio.
Parisiis Apud M. Tavernier Scalptorum regium & excusorem Tabularum Geographcarum, hydrographicarum in Insula.
Palatij ad insigne Spharae Regis A° 1640.
Abraham de la plaetsen fecit.
With two insets: Sicily and Corsica & Sardinia.
Engraver: Abraham de la Plaetsen..
Date of the first edition: 1640.
Date of this map: 1641 or later.
Date on map: 1640.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Image size: 365 x 505mm (14.37 x 19.88 inches).
Sheet size: 490 x 640mm (19.29 x 25.2 inches).
Verso: Blank.
Condition: Original coloured in outline, excellent.
Condition Rating: A+.
Separate publication.
Appeared in: Vialart Ch. Geographia Sacra, Paris, M. Tavernier, 1641.
Very rare: Unknown to Borri.
Melchior Tavernier I the elder (1564-1641)
'Graveur et imprimeur ordinaire du Roy', brother of Gabriel.
Gabriel Tavernier (1566-1610)
Flemish engraver.
Melchior Tavernier II the younger (1594-1665)
Son of Gabriel. Engraver, mapseller and publisher 'dans l'Isle du Palais à la Sphère Royale', Paris. He sold most of his plates and equipment to Pierre Mariette in 1644.
Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1789)
Brother of Melchior. Began as a bookseller 'sur le quai de l'Horloge aux Trois Estoiles' à Paris. Became later a merchant, diplomat and traveller in Turkey, Persia, central Asia and the East Indies.