Le Isole della Società e di Noel delineata sulle ultime osservazioni del Capitan Cook
| Reference: | s31507 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1798 |
| Zone: | Society Islands and Christamas Island |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 505 x 375 mm |
€450.00
| Reference: | s31507 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1798 |
| Zone: | Society Islands and Christamas Island |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 505 x 375 mm |
€450.00
Description
FIRST EDITION, CONTEMPORARY OUTLINE COLOUR -
The Italian painter and engraver, Giovanni Maria Cassini, produced this attractive map of the Tonga Islands and Christmas Island.
The Society Islands are a group of islands located in the Pacific Ocean and part of French Polynesia. It includes Bora Bora, Tahiti, Moorea, Taha'a and Huahine. The archipelago is suspected to have been named by Captain James Cook supposedly in honour of the Royal Society, the sponsor of the first British scientific survey of the islands; however, Cook himself stated in his journal that he called the islands Society "as they lay contiguous to one another."
Christmas Island was first discovered on in 1615 by Captain John Milward of the East India Company ship, and it was named Christmas Island on 25 December 1643.
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.
Copperplate with fine original hand colour, some foxing, otherwise 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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