A very attractive small map depicting Italy with beautiful original coloring and a figurative title cartouche. With coats of arms on both sides and German and French text in bands above the map. Very rare. Title: "L'Italie Avec les Iles" Copper engraving by Elias Baeck (alias Heldenmuth) (1679-1747), He was a German painter, engraver, and cartographer. Elias Baeck studied in Rome, where he earned the nickname Heldenmuth (Heroic Courage). He worked in Venice and Ljubljana before finally settling in Augsburg. He signed his prints E. B. a. H. for Elias Baeck, also known as Heldenmuth. Baeck engraved historical subjects, landscapes, battle scenes, portraits, and maps. From the work "Der curiose und in allen nöthigen Wissenschaften nützliche Dollmetscher oder allgemeines Zeitungs-Handbuch (…)", Augsburg 1748 image size: 22 x 16cm sheet size: 28 x 19cm Condition A small, repaired tear in the white border at the top center; the sheet is somewhat dusty, otherwise very good. With center fold.