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[email protected] Pianta Della Citta di Roma con la Indicazione di Tutte le Antichita e Nuovi Abbellimenti publicata in Rome nell Anno MDCCCXLIII Stock#: 52678op Map Maker: Ruga Date: 1843 Place: Rome Color: Uncolored Condition: VG Size: 44 x 29 inches Price: SOLD Description: From the Collection of General Nicolas Oudinot Fine large-scale map of Rome by Pietor Ruga. Along the sides are 16 vignette views of important locations and buildings within the city. Some are of Roman ruins, including the Pantheon of Agrippa, Trajan's Column, Pyramid of Cestio and the Coliseum. In the lower right is a key to the 14 neighborhoods of the city. The paste down label on the slip case for M. Piale's English Reading Room and Circulating Library, No. 1 Piazza di Spagna in Rome is quite unsual. General Nicolas Charles Oudinot A final detail that gives this map particular importance is the identity of its former owner, Nicolas Charles Oudinot, 1st Comte Oudinot, 1st Duc de Reggio (1767 - 1848), and a Marshal of France. A fierce fighter, the man was wounded no less than 34 times during his military career! The only one of nine siblings to live past childhood, Oudinot joined the army without a noble pedigree, and therefore without a chance of high promotion. That all changed in 1792, with the outbreak of the French Revolution. In that year, Oudinot was elected lieutenant-colonel of the third battalion of the volunteers of the Meuse.