Italia Media, vet Italiae Propriae pars Borealis

Reference: CO-589
Author Abraham REES
Year: 1807
Zone: Central Italy
Printed: London
Measures: 405 x 255 mm
€80.00

Reference: CO-589
Author Abraham REES
Year: 1807
Zone: Central Italy
Printed: London
Measures: 405 x 255 mm
€80.00

Description

Antique map by Macpherson. Dated 1807 within the plate and engraved by Cooper. 

From The Cyclopaedia of Arts, Sciences and Literature (Atlas) by Abraham Rees published 1820.

Rees's Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature was an important 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees (1743–1825), a Presbyterian minister and scholar who had edited previous editions of Chambers's Cyclopædia.

The Cyclopædia appeared serially between January 1802 and August 1820, and ran to 39 volumes of text and 6 volumes of plates including an atlas.

The plates were published in 6 volumes: four covering general articles, one on natural history, and one atlas. They were issued as blocks and so do not appear to have been issued with the texts in the half-volumes. There are 1107 plates, and atlas with 61 folded maps 16" by 10" in size. Bound at the back of Volume 39 are lists of all the plates and an index to them.

Abraham REES(Londra 1743 -1825)

Abraham REES(Londra 1743 -1825)