COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Zatta, Antonio, active 1757-1797
Date:
1785
Short Title:
Orbis veteribus notus
Publisher:
Presso Antonio Zatta, e Figli
Publisher Location:
Venice
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
35
Obj Width cm:
44
Scale 1:
20,000,000
Note:
Engraved hand-colored in outline, double-page map of the Ancient World, with continuation map inset. Covers all of Europe, Asia Minor, Arabia, India, Northern Africa, and parts of Southeast Asia. Shows political divisions, cities, towns, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. with decorative title cartouche.
Reference:
Phillips, 650
World Area:
Eastern Hemisphere
Subject:
Classical
Full Title:
Orbis veteribus notus. Venetiis 1785, Apud Antonium Zatta et Filios. (to accompany) Atlante novissimo ... Tomo IIII. Con privilegio dell Eccelimo Senato. (tomo I-IV).
List No:
11598.250
Page No:
(52)
Series No:
250
Publication Author:
Zatta, Antonio, active 1757-1797
Pub Date:
1788
Pub Title:
Atlante novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle osservazioni, e scoperte fatte dai piu celebri e piu recenti geografi. In Venezia MDCCLXXXIV (1784), Presso Antonio Zatta. con privilegio dell Eccelimo Senato. (tomo I-IV).
Pub Reference:
Phillips, 650
Pub Note:
Zatta's atlas in 4 volumes, dated MDCCLXXIX - MDCCLXXXIV (1779-1784). The most comprehensive world atlas issued in Italy in the 18th. century, based on observations and discoveries made by the most famous and most recent geographers. Volumes 2-4 have full engraved title pages, including borders with geographical instruments and maps, seaside scenes at bottom with a large globe and several putti engaged in mapmaking and observation and a scene in the center. Vol. I, has decorated engraved title page/frontispiece, dedication text " a Sua Eccellenza il Signor Carlo Spinola ..." and index. Bound in half leather marbled covered boards with "Atlante novissi. Venez, 1788 P.A. Zat." stamped in gold on spine. 217 detailed maps, engraved hand colored, double-page, with title cartouches showing vignettes of topographical and historic scenes, dated 1774-1788. Some maps engraved by Giovanni Marco Pitteri, Giuliano Zuliani, and Pietro Antonio Novelli. Shows political and administrative divisions, cities, villages, landmarks, rivers, lakes, and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Map of Guinea Orientale repeated twice, Guinea Occidentale is inserted, it was missing from volume IV. Maps of the New World and the Pacific reflect the most recent explorations and discoveries in those areas. Zatta includes 12 maps in reference to the United States "Colonie Uniti", dated 1778, which he also published in "Storia Dell' America Settentrionale Del Signor Abate Raynal" - see our 5007.000
Pub List No:
11598.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
217
Pub Height cm:
40
Pub Width cm:
27
Image No:
11598250.jp2
Authors:
Zatta, Antonio, active 1757-1797
