Index Map of Italy

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Identifier: id238837

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Scope and Contents

(Wright Index Map of Italy)

L'Italie. Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. De L'Academie Royale des Sciencessur celles du R. P.Riccioli de la Compagnie de Jesus, et autres Astronomes du pays, et sur plsiers autres memoires. [Italy. Based on Mrs. Observations Of the Royal Academy of Sciences on those of R.Riccioli of the Society of Jesus, and other Astronomers of the country, and on other memories.]

Small scale map of Italy and the region. Cover Italian peninsula, Sicily, Sardenia, Corsica and parts of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania. Relief shown pictorially.

Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Guillame Del'Isle, Amsterdam - geographers

Baltasar Ruyter - engraver

J. Covens & C. Mortier, Amsterdam - publishers

copper engraving, hand-colored, decorative cartouche

canvas backed folded map of 4 sheets

51 cm x 59 cm

1 : 2,600,000

Title in upper margin:Nova Italiæ Descriptio, in Regna Respublicas et Status Divisæ , ad usum serenissimi Burgundiæ Ducis [New Description of Italy, the divided state of the kingdom and to use most of the Duke of Burgundy]

Map appears in atlas titled : Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties su Monde, ou sont exactement remarquees les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques, &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Geographe de sa Majeste. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, sur le Vygendam.

Dates

Creation: circa 1675-1918

Creator

From the Collection: Wright, John Womack, 1876-1953 (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Saint Helene, Placide de (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Senex, John, d. 1740 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 (Cartographer, Person)

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