Italia Secondo i gradi dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Parigi

Map taken from Father Claude Buffier's Geografia Universale del Padre Claudio Buffier della Campagna di Gesu', printed in Venice by Francesco Pitteri in 1781.

Claude Buffier (Warsaw, May 25, 1661 - 1737) was a French cartographer, historian and philosopher. A historian and pedagogue, Buffier was born in Warsaw to French parents who returned to France and settled in Rouen soon after his birth. He was educated at his city's Jesuit college and was received into the Order at the age of nineteen. Appointed teacher of theology in Rouen, because of a dispute with Archbishop Jacques-Nicolas de Colbert he was forced to leave the city and go to Rome to justify himself. Acquitted and returned to France, he settled in Paris, where he contributed from 1701 to 1731 to the Journal de Trévoux, also publishing a considerable number of works on religious, philosophical, historical and literary subjects. As a cartographer, Claude Buffier published in 1715 the Geographie Universelle, embellished with a series of interesting maps of the world. The work was a great success and was reprinted in several languages and editions.

Etching, finely hand-colored, in excellent condition.