BORGHI BARTOLOMEO
India di là dal gange ossia l’impero birmanno
Date: Florence,1818
Cod 5655
Subject: Malacca, Thailandia, Vietnam
300,00 €
Copper engraving, 310 x 224 mm, contemporary colored borders. Uncommon. A beautiful, full-margin copy. Taken from “Atlante Generale,” the most important Florentine atlas, particularly appreciated for the surprising precision in its 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; it also contains some historical maps with the old geographical and 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, n. 25; Valerio, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Italian Atlases, 275-276.
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