Uncommon Italian map of the British Isles

SOCIETA CALCOGRAFICA.

Les Isles Britanniques Assujetties aux Observations Astronomiques Combinées avec les Iteneraires Anciens et Modernes Par Robert de Vaugondy Geographe et Delamarche Geographes.
Venice: la Societa' Calcografica, 1800. Original colour. 495 x 600mm.

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A very scarce map of the British Isles, with an inset of the Orkneys and Shetlands in a trompe-l'oeil border in the style of Antonio Zatta. It comes from a never-finished atlas by the 'Società Calcografica', a partnership of the two main Venetian publishers of the period, Zatta and Giuseppe Antonio Remondini, which probably ended with Zatta's death in 1804.


Stock ID : 16616