Subject: Baltic, Latvia & Lithuania
Period: 1781 (dated)
Publication: Atlante Novissimo
Color: Hand Color
Size:
12.3 x 15.9 inches
31.2 x 40.4 cm
This handsome and uncommon Italian map zeroes in on a handful of administrative divisions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Courland, Inflanty, Wilno, Toki, and Samogitia. It extends from C. Domes (Cape Kolka) south to Bialystok, Poland. The title cartouche is decorated with a landscape vignette and attributes the cartography to the Polish atlas of Rizzi-Zannoni, a famous astronomer, surveyor & mathematician. Engraved by G. Zuliani, with lettering by G. Pitteri.
References: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.ZAT-1a, Vol. 2 #44.
Condition: B+
A sharp impression on a sheet with a three crescent moons watermark. There is faint toning along the centerfold and a bit of soiling.