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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