BORGHI BARTOLOMEO
Parte settentrionale dell impero chinese
Date: Florence,1817
Cod 5661
Subject: CHina
300,00 €
Copper engraving, 235x310 mm, contemporary colouring at the borders. Uncommon. A fine example with wide margins. “From Atlante Generale” The most important Florentine atlas, particularly appreciated for the surprising precision in the description of both the new European borders and distant lands. As is well known, this rare atlas shows the new geopolitical structure of Europe established with the Congress of Vienna and provides an updated cartography of North and South America; there are also some historical maps with the old geographical-political conformations of Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt. This is the major work of Borghi, already considered by his contemporaries to be «one of the best geographers in Europe» (Vermiglioli I, 243). See Phillips 735; Valerio, Italian atlases and their makers, no. 25; Valerio, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Italian Atlases, 275-276.
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