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The map measures 40 centimeters wide and 53 tall, and the names of the Pergamon imprint, the Polish Scientific Publishers and the army topographers all appear in its credits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas was enormous, weighing nearly 5.5 kilograms and holding 48 square meters of maps, with more than 400 thematic maps beside the physical and political sheets. Rome, Milan and Naples are the major cities named in the catalog description, and the Apennine Mountains and the principal rivers carry the physical story. Italy in 1967 was in the full swing of its postwar industrial growth, with cities expanding and road and rail networks reaching south, and the symbols for roads, railways and boundaries record that infrastructure. The sheet was printed in Warsaw by Wojskowe Zaklady Kartograficzne, a reminder that Poland produced some of the finest atlases of the age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collector of mid-century cartography, a family with roots in Milan, Naples or Sicily, or anyone who admires clear physical relief will find a distinctive gift here. TheMapVault's De Agostini sheet of 1922 gives the Italian view of the same peninsula, whereas this 1967 sheet is a Polish compilation in red and pale tints. 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Augustus Mitchell, Jr. The catalog records a scale of 1:7,500,000 and describes it as full color by nation and internal region, with an inset map of the Maltese Islands and an ornate border. The sheet belongs to the first edition and first state of the atlas, which replaced the New Universal Atlas and continued in print until 1893. It shows the eastern Mediterranean as a patchwork of empires and small states. The sheet measures 34 centimeters wide and 27 tall, and the atlas it comes from holds forty-seven quarto maps within a series of seventy-six maps and plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year 1860 was a hinge for the lands on this sheet. Italy was still divided into separate states, and within twelve months Garibaldi's campaign and the plebiscites would bring most of them under one crown, while the Austrian Empire still held Venetia and ruled from Vienna. Greece was a young kingdom, and Turkey in Europe remained the Ottoman Empire's largest holding on the continent. Malta, in the inset, was a British possession whose capital Valletta commanded the central Mediterranean. A map that colors each nation and its internal regions captures that moment with unusual clarity, just before the political map of Italy was redrawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA reader of Risorgimento history, a family with roots in Italy, Austria, Greece or Malta, or a collector of American atlas maps will find a lasting gift here. TheMapVault's Colton sheets of 1856 show the Italian states from the same decade, whereas this Mitchell sheet of 1860 places them beside the empires that surrounded them. 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M. Higgins, for an unrecorded atlas issued in 1832 by W. S. Orr and by W. \u0026amp; R. Chambers. The catalog lists a scale of 1:3,200,000 and an engraved sheet printed by Bradbury \u0026amp; Evans, Orr \u0026amp; Smith and Russell, hand colored to separate the political divisions. The map shows the southern peninsula with the Apennines, the Adriatic Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, together with Sicily, and an inset gives Sardinia its own panel outlined in a different color. Major cities named in the catalog description include Naples, Palermo and Cagliari, and a graticule of latitude and longitude runs round the border. The map measures 27 by 22 centimeters, and the unrecorded atlas that carries it is catalogued with a note that it also includes maps of Australia and Tasmania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDower's atlas held 51 maps and is noted for an unusual sheet of mountains and rivers facing the title page, which shows that he cared as much for physical geography as for political boundaries. Its maps of Australia and Tasmania were later cited by scholars, and many of these sheets were reissued as lithographs in his Short Atlas for Schools. In 1832 southern Italy was a patchwork of kingdoms, with Naples as the great capital of the south, Sicily under the same crown and Sardinia governed separately from Piedmont. 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M. Higgins are credited with this North Italy, published in 1832 by W. S. Orr and by W. \u0026amp; R. Chambers in the same unrecorded atlas as the sheet for the south. It measures 27 by 22 centimeters and carries a scale of 1:3,200,000, with the catalog describing a hand-colored engraving in the classic style of the early nineteenth century. It shows northern Italy with parts of Switzerland, the borders of the separate states picked out in color, and the Mediterranean and Adriatic coasts. The catalog names Milan, Venice and Turin among the major cities, and rivers and mountain ranges are shown on the sheet. The map's catalog entry also notes the commentary of W. M. 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Colton drew Southern Italy: Kingdom of Naples, I. Sardinia \u0026amp; Malta for Colton's Atlas of the World, which J. H. Colton \u0026amp; Co. of 172 William Street, New York, issued in 1856 as map number 19. The catalog gives a scale of 1:1,900,800 and describes full color within an ornate border, with an inset of Malta and its Dependencies. Mountains, rivers and coastlines are marked, and cities, towns and settlements are labeled. The text of the atlas was written by Richard Swainson Fisher, and this one-volume 1856 edition is scarcer than the two-volume version that preceded it. The sheet is 41 centimeters wide and 34 tall, with the New York imprint and the number 19 printed in the margin, and the atlas was bound in quarter leather with the title stamped in gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColton first published the atlas by subscription and in parts, and it stayed in print for more than thirty years, so it became one of the best-known American atlases of its day. 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The Bibliographisches Institut of Hildburghausen engraved it on steel in 1849, and the catalog records a scale of 1:1,900,000, a size of 25 by 19 centimeters and a hand-colored outline. It shows the southern half of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies with administrative boundaries, cities and towns, relief in hachures, a legend and a list of provinces. An inset covers Malta, Gozzo and Comino. The atlas's engraved title page, index and maps were issued in parts, and the catalog numbers the sheet 22 in the series, with the imprint printed in the upper margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe atlas appeared in thirty-one deliveries and held 123 steel-engraved maps dated between 1849 and 1852. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was a major political entity at the time, ruled from Naples by the Bourbons, and the map shows its southern half, with the mountains of Sicily and Calabria drawn in hachures. 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It is a fine example of this later edition of the map made by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, republished by Letts, the English firm known for its diaries and atlases. The sheet shows the whole of Italy together with the islands of the title, so Sicily, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica appear alongside the mainland. It is an overview map of the country, made for the home atlas, and it reached a wide audience through the long working life of the Society's engraved copper. Because the Society's maps were reissued by other publishers, the same geography reached readers under several imprints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe date places it in the first years of the Kingdom of Italy, which was proclaimed in 1861 after Garibaldi's campaign and the plebiscites. In 1865 the capital moved from Turin to Florence, and Rome was still papal, since it would not become the capital until 1870. Malta stayed British, which is why an English map includes it beside Italy. 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Gray. It is hand colored by province, showing post-unification Italy, with insets of Mount Etna, San Marino and the environs of Palermo, Naples and Rome. The provinces of Trento and Trieste are shown as part of Austria-Hungary, and both the names of the old divisions, such as kingdoms and duchies, and the modern provinces are provided. The sheet therefore records the country twice, as it had been before 1861 and as it was twenty years later, which makes it an unusually informative reference for anyone tracing an Italian family. Both the old divisions and the modern provinces are named on the sheet, which makes it a convenient key for tracing family places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1881 Italy was a united kingdom under Umberto I, with Rome as its capital since 1870, and the unredeemed lands of Trento and Trieste were a political issue that would last until the First World War. 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Sardinia \u0026amp; Malta was published in New York in 1859 by Joseph Hutchins Colton. It is a highly detailed map of Southern Italy, colored by Papal States, showing towns, roads, rivers, lakes, mountains, railroads and islands. A large inset covers Malta and its Dependencies. It is a terrific regional map, according to the dealer, from one of the most prolific American mapmakers of the middle of the nineteenth century. The sheet is the separately issued 1859 version of the southern map, with the same title as the atlas sheet of three years earlier. The large inset of Malta and its Dependencies is one of the features singled out, and it adds a second map to the sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year 1859 was the last full year of the old Kingdom of Naples. In 1860 Garibaldi would land in Sicily and bring the kingdom down, and in 1861 the Kingdom of Italy would be proclaimed. 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