Subject: Italy
Period: 1762 (circa)
Publication: Atlas Moderne
Color: Hand Color
Size:
17.6 x 11.9 inches
44.7 x 30.2 cm
This detailed two-sheet map covers all of Italy and includes Corsica, Sardinia, and Malta. It is dense with place names, and there is nice topographical detail. The top right corner of the northern sheet is embellished with a large title cartouche composed of wind-heads in the empyrean.
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Condition: B+
On watermarked paper with light toning and minor scattered foxing that is mostly concentrated in the margins. The first image is a composite image - the map is in two separate sheets.