Subject: Baltic
Period: 1781 (dated)
Publication: Atlante Novissimo
Color: Hand Color
Size:
12.4 x 16.1 inches
31.5 x 40.9 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 crisp impression with full contemporary color on a bright sheet with a "GBG" watermark and light toning along the centerfold.