Carta Geografica del Regno di Napoli
| Reference: | S36711 |
| Author | Giambattista ALBRIZZI |
| Year: | 1740 ca. |
| Zone: | Southern Italy |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 443 x 345 mm |
€400.00
| Reference: | S36711 |
| Author | Giambattista ALBRIZZI |
| Year: | 1740 ca. |
| Zone: | Southern Italy |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 443 x 345 mm |
€400.00
Description
Map published in Venice by Giambattista Albrizzi.
Albrizzi's maps, derived from the works of Guillaulme de L'Isle and Iasaak Tirion, were prepared for his Atlante Novissimo, che contiene tutte le parti del mondo from 1740 (volume 1) - 1750 (volume 2). At the same time, they were also used to illustrate Lo stato presente di tutti i paesi e popoli del mondo naturale, politico e morale con nuove osservazioni degli antichi e moderni viaggiatori. Scritto in inglese dal signor Salmon. Tradotto in Ollandese, e Francese, Tedescho ed ora in Italiano. In Venezia, Presso Giambattista Albrizzi MDCCXXXVII-MDCCLVI (1737-66), work - in twenty-seven volumes - Italian translation of the books by Thomas Salmon Modern history, or the present state of all nations, which appeared between 1725 and 1739 in London in 32 volumes.
Giambattista Albrizzi is part of a family of printers and publishers of Venice from Bergamo. Start of printing was in the last decades of the seventeenth century, Girolamo Albrizzi was succeeded by his son Giambattista, particularly active in the twenty years 1730-50. He gave great impetus to the art printing Venetian, linking its name to a series of magnificent editions, which earned him the collaboration of the best designers and engravers of the time: Piazzetta, Zanetti, Pitteri and Bartolozzi.
Copperplate, with fine later hand colour, in good condition.
Bibliografia
V. Valerio, Cartografi Veneti, p. 139.
Giambattista ALBRIZZI (Venezia 1698 - 1777)
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Giambattista Albrizzi is part of a family of printers and publishers of Venice from Bergamo. Start of printing was in the last decades of the seventeenth century, Girolamo Albrizzi was succeeded by his son Giambattista, particularly active in the twenty years 1730-50. Among the most ancestors of modern journalism, at the end of 1740 obtained by the Reformers of the University of Padua, the privilege of printing "a newspaper containing news and military policies" entitled The New Postiglione. Gave great impetus to the art printing Venetian, linking its name to a series of magnificent editions, which earned him the collaboration of the best designers and engravers of the time: Piazzetta, Zanetti, Pitteri and Bartolozzi. Lit: Valerio, Cartografi Veneti, p. 139
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Giambattista ALBRIZZI (Venezia 1698 - 1777)
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Giambattista Albrizzi is part of a family of printers and publishers of Venice from Bergamo. Start of printing was in the last decades of the seventeenth century, Girolamo Albrizzi was succeeded by his son Giambattista, particularly active in the twenty years 1730-50. Among the most ancestors of modern journalism, at the end of 1740 obtained by the Reformers of the University of Padua, the privilege of printing "a newspaper containing news and military policies" entitled The New Postiglione. Gave great impetus to the art printing Venetian, linking its name to a series of magnificent editions, which earned him the collaboration of the best designers and engravers of the time: Piazzetta, Zanetti, Pitteri and Bartolozzi. Lit: Valerio, Cartografi Veneti, p. 139
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