La parte orientale della Russia Asiatica delineata sulle ultime osservazioni
| Reference: | s31474 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1796 |
| Zone: | Eastern Siberia |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 485 x 355 mm |
€300.00
| Reference: | s31474 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1796 |
| Zone: | Eastern Siberia |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 485 x 355 mm |
€300.00
Description
- FIRST EDITION, CONTEMPORARY OUTLINE COLOUR -
The Italian painter and engraver, Giovanni Maria Cassini, produced this map of Eastern Siberia, republics of Sakha (Yakutia).
Published in: Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma, Calcografia camerale, 1792-1801.
Uncommon map of Tartary and Bering Street with western Alaska, includes Aleutians, but lacking detail.
With page number 66 in upper right corner.
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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