[MAP] Early View of MESSINE Italy, by Aveline

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[Aveline] MESSINE, ancienement Messena Ville Archiep...Isle de Sicile.  Aveline fecit et excudit C. P .R. No date, c. 1700's. Watermarked paper.  Full size approx: 26  cm. x 34 cm. Uncolored. Ink marking upper r. margin, otherwise VG. 

Uncommon town-view (map) of MESSINA,  a harbor city in northeast Sicily, with remarkable details and classical ships, engraved by Aveline, locations numbered with corresponding legend below. 

Pierre Aveline (1656–1722), a French engraver, print-publisher and print-seller, was the head of a family of artists, including his two sons Pierre-Alexandre Aveline and Antoine Aveline. [Wikipedia/Emmanuel Bénézit Dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and writers of all times and all countries, Paris, R. And Roger F. Chernoviz, 1911.]

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