Russia Bianca ò Moscovia divisa da Guglielmo Sansone ne suoi Regni Ducati e Principati Provincie e Popoli che presentemente

Very rare map of Russia printed in Naples by Paolo Petrini in 1717.

Derived from Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola's map printed in Rome by the De Rossi printing house in 1678.

The map is taken from Atlante Partenopeo by the Neapolitan publisher and bookseller Paolo Petrini. The atlas is a complex publishing operation put in place by Petrini to collect many of the maps he made beginning in the last decade of the 17th century, taken substantially from Guillaulme Sanson, Nicolas De Fer, and Giacomo Cantelli, and published with updates still through much of the 1700s by his son Nicola.

Petrini's atlas represented for the Kingdom of Naples, the equivalent of the Mercurio Geografico printed in Rome by the De Rossi printing house and circulated mainly in the Papal States.

Copperplate engraving, contemporary coloring with retouches, in excellent condition.