Copper engraving, 676 x 490 mm, contemporary outline coloring, in excellent condition. Published in the mid-18th century by Paolo and Francesco Santini for their prestigious Atlas universel dressée sur les meilleures cartes modernes, a sumptuous atlas composed of maps that rework the most up-to-date French cartography in a Venetian guise. The maps are taken from the best geographers of the time: D’Anville, Bellin, Bonne, Borgonio, Boscovich, Clarici, Delisle, Jaillot, Janvier, and Robert de Vaugondy. Santini’s atlas was not very successful and was issued in only a few copies: it was therefore reprinted by the Remondini family, who had purchased the copper engravings from Santini in 1781. To the papers of Paolo Santini, dated between 1774 and 1780, the Remondinis added several other papers, dated between 1782 and 1784: among these, in the second volume, the large folded map of Italy, the Republic of Genoa, Palestine, and the large maps of Africa. Paolo Santini (1729, Venice – 1793, Belluno), Catholic priest at the Church of Santa Maria Formosa in Venice, taught drawing at the schools of the lagoon city of the Venetian Province of the Society of Jesus. Paolo Santini (1729, Venice–1793, Belluno), Catholic priest at the Church of Santa Maria Formosa in Venice, taught drawing at the schools of the lagoon city of the Venetian Province of the Society of Jesus. of the Santinis were then purchased, in 1780, by the Remondini printing house.