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EUROPE<br />

78<br />

Rare Birds-Eye Plan / View Of Northern<br />

Italy<br />

STANNARD & DIXON.<br />

'STANNARD AND DIXON'S<br />

PANORAMIC BIRDS EYE VIEW OF THE<br />

SEAT OF WAR SHOWING THE<br />

KINGDOM OF SARDINIA WITH ITS<br />

PRINCIPAL CITIES, ROADS, RAILWAYS,<br />

FORTRESSES & STRATEGIC DEFENCES,<br />

THE ROUTE OF THE AUSTRIAN'S<br />

APPROACH OVER THE BRIDGE OF<br />

BUFFOLERA, ACROSS THE TICINO, THE<br />

PRINCIPAL PASSES OF THE ALPS AND<br />

THE APPROACH OF THE FRENCH<br />

ARMY OVER MOUNT CENIS TO TURIN<br />

& THEIR ROUTE BY SEA FROM<br />

MARSEILLES & TOULON TO GENOVA,<br />

THENCE TO ALESSANDRIA TO FORM A JUNCTION WITH THE SARDINIAN ARMY. ALSO THE<br />

NEIGHBOURING STATES SURROUNDING THE KINGDOM OF SARDINIA. PROJECTED FROM MAPS &<br />

PLANS, FURNISHED BY COUNT JEAN DE FOIX, ATTACHÉ OF THE SARDINIAN EMBASSY.'<br />

'STANNARD & DIXON.' 'I. PACKER, LITH.' 'LONDON; PRINTED & PUB.D MAY, 3, 1859, BY STANNARD<br />

& DIXON, 7, POLAND STREET.' 'N.o 1'<br />

London: Stannard & Dixon, May 3, 1859; lithograph, border: 482 x widest: 525 x 707mm,<br />

printed in black and sepia.<br />

The centrefold worn, with splits at top and bottom, one tear into the printed area restored.<br />

Rare map of the theatre of war between the French, allied with the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Austrians<br />

in Northern Italy, known as 'Second War of Italian Independence', which commenced on 29th April 1859.<br />

The map covers an area bounded by 'THE ALPS' in the north, and the 'MEDITERRANEAN SEA' in the<br />

south, and from the 'LAKE OF GENEVA', 'GRENOBLE', 'BRIANCON' and 'MARSEILLES' eastwards to<br />

'TRIESTE' and the 'GULF OF VENICE'.<br />

COPAC records only the example in the National Library of Wales. £450<br />

79<br />

Rare Birds-Eye View / Map Of Lombardy<br />

CONCANEN & LEE.<br />

'Military Topographical View of the<br />

STRONGHOLDS OF LOMBARDY. ON<br />

THE AUTHORITY OF M. LAVELLÉE.'<br />

'Concanen & Lee.' [facsimile signature]<br />

'CONCANEN & LEE, DEL & LITH.'<br />

[London:] Concanen & Lee, [1859 ?];<br />

lithograph, border, widest: 269 x 339<br />

widest: 301 x 339mm, in original colour.<br />

Four areas of paper thinness w<strong>here</strong> the<br />

map was crudely removed from a<br />

scrapbook, a little browning in the upper<br />

border, else a good example.<br />

Although undated, this attractive<br />

plan/view probably relates to the Second<br />

Italian War of Independence War (1859), in<br />

which Italy captured Lombardy from the<br />

Austrians. The M. Lavallée referred to may<br />

be Theophile Lavallée, a French military surveyor (d. 1866). Not traced thus on COPAC.<br />

62<br />

£400

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