Puzzle Sevilla
19.20€
The Tachymetric Plan of Seville and its outskirts, dated 1890, was authored by the Spanish architects Juan Talavera y de la Veja and Ricardo María Vidal y de Soto. In addition to identifying the private buildings (in black) and the official civil or military buildings (in pink), the map also indicates churches (in grey), train lines (in blue) and tram lines (in red). Since it is a tachymetric map, meaning it was surveyed with a topographic instrument called a tachymeter, this document includes the elevations of the streets and other urban spaces. These elevations are indicated in the section drawing located in the lower part of the map that shows the levels reached by the water in the floods of 1856 and 1876. On the right-hand side of the map, there is an altimetric graph indicating the main points of the city’s water supply, whose highest point was the Zacatin hill, an elevation located about 70 km northeast of Seville.
Number of pieces: 540
Dimensions: 35 x 50 cm
Box dimensions: 8 x 8 x 28cm
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Puzzle Toledo19.20€The Plan - Guide of the city of Toledo was published in 1882 by José Reinoso y Torija (1830-1903), a well-known Spanish engraver, cartographer, and calligrapher. After a military career, during which he learned the art of drawing and cartography, he was invited to direct the records section of the Geographic Institute of Madrid, where he drew important maps of Spanish territory, including a large and detailed map of Madrid on 17 sheets. In addition to being the author of numerous cartographic works, he created several calligraphic collections, in various languages, and calligraphy manuals for teaching that helped entire generations throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The map, at a scale of 1/400, is in the middle of a very orderly graphic composition. On both sides the names of the streets, squares and main monuments of the city are listed, which are also identified with numbers and the quadrant in which they are located. In the upper left corner, at a scale of 1/10,000, we find a framed map of the "Contours of Toledo towards the suburb or outer neighborhood of Azucaica." Number of pieces: 540 Dimensions: 35 x 50 cm Box dimensions: 8 x 8 x 28cm
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Puzzle Berlin19.20€
This map was drawn in 1896 by Julius Straube, a military cartographer who founded the Geographischen Instituts und Landkartenverlag that published, between 1858 and 1913, several thematic maps of the city of Berlin. Among these, is a map with bus lines (1864), postal districts (1873), taxi circulation areas (1884), in addition to a general plan of the city (1910), extremely detailed and divided into 44 sheets.
The Monumental Map of the Capital was published for the Industrial Exhibition of 1896, where the splendor of advances in the country, which at the time was at the height of technological progress, was evident.
On the map you can find the railway lines, tram lines, steam train lines, and horse-drawn wagon lines, in addition to the most relevant buildings in the capital. Some monuments are depicted in vignettes arranged around the map where, in the lower right corner, it is possible to observe the exhibition area identified as "Gewerbeausstellung 1896".
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Puzzle Roma19.20€The Nova Topografia di Roma by Nolli is, undoubtedly, one of the most remarkable maps about Rome ever made. The large-scale map was designed by Giovanni Battista Nolli, an Italian engineer and architect, in 1748, in collaboration with Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and dedicated to Pope Benedict XIV. The remarkable original size, 176 x 208 cm, was achieved by the juxtaposition of 12 sheets, offering a representation of the city, with vivid detail on its streets, churches and other monuments, including more than 300 churches’ floor plans. Additionally, the map featured an index of the most remarkable buildings of Rome, “Delle Fabbriche più ragguardevoli contenute nella Pianta”. The map quickly became an urban representation model due to its topographical accuracy and planimetric richness. Nolli’s Rome map is still a significant reference to the cartographic production. Number of pieces: 540 Dimensions: 35 x 50 cm Box dimensions: 8 x 8 x 28 cm
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Puzzle Firenze19.20€The Topographical Plan of Florence, designed by Gaetano Auzzani, engraved by Giacinto Maina and edited by Giovanni Berni in 1850 is a tribute of high quality to the "very deserving gonfalonier of the city of Florence" Vincenzo Peruzzi. Peruzzi was the last gonfalonier of Florence, an important political figure with high military, administrative and religious powers common in Tuscan cities, and he left many finished works to the city. Perhaps this is the reason for there being, on both sides of the map, an extensive and organized list of buildings with various information: the area where they are located, the name, the state of construction, the author and the era. In the first lines of the list on the left there is also an indication of the three circles of walls that were built from 775 onwards. The plan is organized with a chromatic convention that divides the buildings of worship, the public buildings, the private buildings, the most significant buildings and, with the use of a brown line, shows the division of the city into terzieri, an administrative subdivision into three neighborhoods of the time. Number of pieces: 540 Dimensions: 35 x 50 cm Box dimensions: 8 x 8 x 28cm
