Nuovo Atlante Portatile ovvero Metodo facile per apprendere in breve la Geografia…

Nuovo Atlante Portatile ovvero Metodo facile per apprendere in breve la Geografia con un esatto trattato della Sfera che fa vedere il nome degli Astri, i vari Sistemi del Mondo, e l’uso dei Globi ec. Opera arricchita da XXIV carte miniate per so delle scuole d’Italia e di ogni genere di persone. // Venezia MDCCLXXVII presso Giammaria Bassaglia.

In 8°, XXVIII + 328 pp., [1] f. di Errata, 24 ff. di tavole incise, colorate a mano in epoca.  

Legatura in mezza pergamena con angoli, decorazioni a secco ai piatti, tagli spruzzati in rosso; un po’ sciupata, mancanze ai piatti. Ottimo esemplare, rarissime fioriture.

Prima edizione con la data 1777, poi ristampata nel 1785. Come indicato da G. King questo raro atlante è un'edizione pirata italiana dell’opera di Christiaan Andreas Sepp, stampata nel 1758.

“Map engraver Christiaan Andreas Sepp, who died on 2nd August 1775, was the founder of a family business which became famous for its natural history plates. He was also the author of an innovative geographical textbook, for which he drew and engraved a uniform set of twenty-two miniature maps, about 120 x 95 mm. All the plates were beautifully engraved and although he only signed the first one, the world map, he made their authorship clear by signing it ‘C.Sepp omnes fecit’. Subsequently widely imitated by many other engravers, they were unusual in having no names of any kind. Instead, the titles were replaced by numbers I-XXII in cartouches and all the other names were represented by symbols, upper and lower case letters or arabic and roman figures. He produced a novel and entertaining method of teaching geography to children, by writing a chapter of questions and answers to go with the appropriate map. Each of these folded out in such a way as to be visible when the text was read: I (The World); II (Europe); III (Portugal); IV (Spain); V (France); VI (Germany); VII (Switzerland); VIII (Italy); IX (Low Countries); X (Holland); XI (British Isles); XII (Denmark); XIII (Norway); XIV (Sweden); XV (Russia); XVI (Prussia); XVII (Poland); XVIII (Hungary); XIX (European Turkey); XX (Asia); XXI (Africa); XXII (America)”

Per approfondimenti cfr. G. King, Miniature Antique Maps https://www.miniaturemaps.net/_webedit/uploaded-files/All%20Files/1701-1800/1758b%20Sepp.pdf