152 - Affiche Ancienne Original antique engraving - Spalato - City of the Venetians. It is in Dalmatia / Ville des Venetiens. Elle est dans la Dalmatie - Published by Pieter Mortier (1661–1711) the illustration features boats sailing on the sea around Gulf of Spalato and the Gulf of Venice. Striking and highly detailed interesting 1704 Pierre Mortier's copper engraved map featuring a bird's-eye plan of Split, Croatia, under the dominion of the Venetian Republic. The plan shows the city with its fortifications and surrounding landscape. A simple title, a simple mileage scale, a compass rose and several sailing ships adorn the sheet. Printed first time by Johann Blaeu, this view has been republished by Pierre Mortier. Joan Blaeu published during his life three town-books of Italy: Citta del Vaticano, Rome and Napoli. By the year 1672 a fire largely destroyed the main Blaeu workshop, and much of the prepared material. However, work on the town-book continued, and in 1682 the completed work was published in Amsterdam by the heirs of Joan Blaeu. The town-book was a great success and reissued several times by different publishers in Amsterdam, as late as 1726. Pierre Mortier re-issued all the Blaeu plates in the years 1704/05 in an atlas comprising four volumes. Fair condition, folds, creasing, staining, 2 pages stuck together. Country of issue: Netherlands, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 53x65, year of printing: 1704.