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Il Piemonte sotto nome del quale vengono compresi il ducato d'Avosta, il principato di Piemonte, la Signoria di Vercelli, li Marchesati di Susa e di Saluzzo la contea d'Asti, et il canavese : Con parte del Ducato di Monferrato spettante alla casa reale di Savoia, rimanendo l'altra parte al Sereniss.mo di Mantoua. Il tutto descritto da Giacomo Cantelli geografo ... e dato in Luce da Domenico de Rossi erede di Gio Giaco.. de Rossi dalle sue Stampe in Roma alla Pace, con Privil. del S.P. l'Anno. 1691 die 25 Ottobre. Antonio Barbey, Sculp. (To accompany) Mercurio geografico overo Guida geografica in tutte le parti del mondo conforme le tavole di Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola ... Tomo secondo ... l'anno 1692. (Map 110-111).

Authors :
Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691
Cantelli, Giacomo, 1643-1695
Rossi, Domenico de, 1647-1729
Barbey, Antonio
Publication Year :
1691
Publisher :
Domenico de Rossi, 1691.

Abstract

1 map on 4 sheets, in 2 parts, double page. Outline hand colored, with decorative carthouche. Relief shown pictorially. Double page: Plates 108-109 include: scale bar, dedication text and half title at lower margin: Il ducato d'Auosta, il Canauese et il marchesato di Susa ... Plates 110-111 include: title, notes and half title at the upper margin: La contea di Nizza diuisa ne suoi quattro vicariati ... Maps showing administrative divisions, cities, towns, landmarks, churches, roads and mountains. Includes notes and dedication text "All'Emmo., e Revmo. Prencipe Il Sigr. Cardinale Gio Franco. Albani ... Domenico de Rossi".<br />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.

Subjects

Subjects :
Classical

Details

Database :
LUNA Commons
Publication Type :
Map
Accession number :
edsluc.RUMSEY.8.1.290580.90067253
Document Type :
World Atlas<br />Atlas Map