Le Coste Nord Ovest dell'America e Nord Est dell'Asia delineate sille ultime osservazioni del Cap. Cook
| Reference: | s31488 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1798 |
| Zone: | Northern America |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 504 x 370 mm |
€550.00
| Reference: | s31488 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1798 |
| Zone: | Northern America |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 504 x 370 mm |
€550.00
Description
- FIRST EDITION -
Nice example of Cassin's map of the Northwest Coast of America and Northeast Coast of Asia, showing Captain James Cook's tracks through the region. The Cook's exploration of the Bering Strait were made on his Third and final voyage. This is without doubt the most decorative map of the period covering this region. It also shows with exact detail the various islands, bays, rivers and other places of interest visited by Cook. The title is within a decorative title cartouche depicting American Indians. A scarce map.
The Italian painter and engraver, Giovanni Maria Cassini, produced this attractive map as part of his epic three-volume atlas, the Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma, Calcografia Camerale, 1792-1801.
Cassini was geographer and cartographer, but he was also good at engraving architectural items and perspectives – he was one of the best disciples Giovanni Battista Piranesi had. Moreover, Cassini was one of the last artists to engrave spheres in the XVIII century and his globes were quite famous and widespread, and realized the most important Italian Atlas of the XVIII century; his maps always bear a cartouche, extremely rich in colours and details.
Cassini's Atlas was reprinted by the Calcografia Camerale in the first quarter of the 19th century, before 1839. Only the first edition examples - such as this one - are printed on contemporary laid paper and are hand-colored. Nineteenth-century editions are already on wove paper, lacking and uncolored.
Copperplate with fine original hand colour with addition on the cartouche, in very good condition.
Giovanni Maria CASSINI (1745 - 1824)
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Giovanni Maria Cassini was a fine Italian engraver, globe maker and painter. He did most of his work in Rome, and was not a member of the French Cassini family (a French Giovanni Maria Cassini was bor 120 years earlier). In 1792 Cassini published in Rome Vol. 1 of his atlas Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale. This contained two celestial hemispheres printed in 1790, which were labeled Planisfero Celeste Settentrionale and Meridionale. Similar to Zatta's hemispheric prints, in the corners were beautiful drawings of famous observatories: Collegio Romano, Bologna, Milan and Padua in the northern plate, and Paris, Cassel, Greenwich and Copenaghen in the southern plate. Vol. 2 of this atlas was published in 1797, Vol. 3 in 1801.
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Giovanni Maria CASSINI (1745 - 1824)
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Giovanni Maria Cassini was a fine Italian engraver, globe maker and painter. He did most of his work in Rome, and was not a member of the French Cassini family (a French Giovanni Maria Cassini was bor 120 years earlier). In 1792 Cassini published in Rome Vol. 1 of his atlas Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale. This contained two celestial hemispheres printed in 1790, which were labeled Planisfero Celeste Settentrionale and Meridionale. Similar to Zatta's hemispheric prints, in the corners were beautiful drawings of famous observatories: Collegio Romano, Bologna, Milan and Padua in the northern plate, and Paris, Cassel, Greenwich and Copenaghen in the southern plate. Vol. 2 of this atlas was published in 1797, Vol. 3 in 1801.
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