Deutsch(Italy.) With simple cartouches for title, legend, and boundaries. Map of Italy with Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, and Algerian coastal strip by Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839) in steel engraving colored in outline. (1833-37.) 30 x 25.5 cm.
With marks for navigability of rivers, harbours, and channels. – Smoothed vertical fold in the left margin of the image. On the right trimmed slicing the outer border line. Slightly time-marked.
Offer no. 9,848 / EUR 50. (c. US$ 70.) + shipping
“ I am curious as to the history of this (original Ridinger printing-)plate (just I bought) and the others you have offered. Did you purchase them from the Ridinger estate (indirectly, indeed) or a private collector? These are truly rare one of a kind pieces ”
(Mr. L. A. F., October 28, 2003)