La Franca Contea o Contea di Borgogna divisa ne suoi tre Baliaggi principali, cioe d'Aval, di Dola e di Amont e subdivisisa nelle sue Prefetture inferiori o Baliaggi subalterni su L' Esemplare delle Carte Migliori ... da Giacomo Cantelli da Vigna ... e data a la luce da Gio. Giacomo de Rossi dalle sue stampe in Roma alla Pace, con priv. del Som.. Pont. L'Anno 1690. (to accompany) Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo ... Tomo Primo. (Map 52-53).

1 map on 2 sheets, outline hand colored, with decorative cartouche. Relief shown pictorially. Shows political and administrative divisions, cities, towns, landmarks, forests, rivers and mountains. Includes note and dedication text "All Emmo. e Revmo. Sigr .... Cardinal Rubini Secretario di statto du sua santità ... Gio Giacomo di Rossi."
A fine example of De Rossi's atlas, in 2 volumes, similar to Coronelli's atlas of the same period, with engraved decorative title page. Includes 150 engraved outline hand colored maps with decorative title cartouche, on 181 sheets. Some maps having 2-4 page numbers. Index includes plates 1-95 of the first volume, and plates 96-181 in the second volume. Maps dated between 1669 and 1715, issued by Giov. Giac. de Rossi and Domenico de Rossi, they are mainly derived from Cantelli da Vignola's maps, an important seventeenth-century cartographer who pioneered the Italian style of fine bold engraving that would eventually be embraced and expanded upon by Vincenzo Coronelli, and Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography. Maps engraved by Baudrand, Franciscus Donia, G.B. Falda, Jean Lhuilier, Vin Mariotti, Gasparo Pietro Santa, Salomon Rogiers, & Giorgio Widman, Lubin, Titi, Ameti, Magini and Mattei. Bound in blue half leather binding. Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (1627 - 1691) was an Italian printer and publisher active in 17th century Rome. Giovanni inherited the important Rome based printing business originally founded by his father, Giuseppe de Rossi (1570-1639). By the mid-17th century the Rossi firm was considered the most active and important press in Rome.