Elegant and rare map of the Western Roman Empire, engraved in etching on copper by Georgius Widman after a design by the French geographer Michel-Antoine Baudrand. Published in Rome in 1669 by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, it features beautifully hand-watercoloured borders and a majestic Baroque cartouche. This extraordinary 17th-century map offers a refined historical and territorial reconstruction of the Western…
An elegant and rare map of the Eastern Roman Empire, etched on copper plate by Georgius Widman after a drawing by the French geographer Michel-Antoine Baudrand. Published in Rome in 1669 by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, it features splendid hand-colored outline borders and a majestic Baroque cartouche. An extraordinary 17th-century map serving as the complementary representation focused on the territories…
