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Description

Rare decorative map of Europe, published in Bologna by Francesco Sabatini and engraved by Pietro Todeschi.

Decorative and very rare carte-à-figures map of Europe, including 12 City views across the top and bottom of the map and 10 vignettes of national the typical dress of Europeans in various countries along the left and right.

The map was published by Sabatini, one of the more obscure Italian mapmakers of the late seventeenth century. Little is known about Sabatini, who was apparently active as a printer and publisher (and possibly engraver) in the 1670s, probably in Bologna. This map is a late piracy of Dutch cartes-à-figure maps, popularized in the first part of the seventeenth century, although it seems likely that the map was plagiarized from intermediate Italian copies, perhaps by Stefano Scolari, an engraver and publisher active from the 1640s to 1660s.

Reference
Klaus Stopp, ‘Drie Karten von Francesco Sabatini',., Mappae Antiquae Liber Amicorum Günter Schilder, p.281-285.; Günter Schilder, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandici VI. "Nederlandse foliokarten met decoratieve randen, 1604-1640"