Copper engraving, original outline colour reinforced and recently full coloured, mm 560x450 Very good condition. Copperplate engraving, mm 560x450, contemporary colour at borders and recently finished, taken from Santini's Atlas Universelle, published by Remondini. Derived from Eredi Homann's model of 1745. Map edited 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 his time, D'Anville, Bellin, Bonne, Borgonio, Boscovich, Clarici, Delisle, Jaillot, Janvier, Robert de Vaugondy. Santini's atlas did not have great publishing success and came out in few copies: it was therefore reprinted by the Remondini, who had purchased the copperplates from Santini in 1781. To Paolo Santini's maps, dated between 1774 and 1780, the Remondini added several other maps, dated between 1782 and 1784: among them, in the second volume, the large folded maps 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, teacher of drawing at schools in the lagoon city of the Venetian Province of the Society of Jesus. Very good state of preservation.The map depicts Lithuania and Belarus stretching from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Grand Duché de Lithuanie) to the Government of Bielogrod (Gouvernement de Bielogrod) and from Livonia (Livonie) and the Government of Nowogrod to the Palatinate (Voidodeship) of Nowogrodek (Palatinat de Nowogrodek) and the Gouvernment of Little Russia (Gouvernment de la Petite Russie). Other labeled regions include the Territory of Witepsk (Vitebsk), the Polock Voivodship (Palat. de Polock), the Palatinate of Minsk (Palatinat de Minsk) and the Palatinate of Livonia (Palat. de Livonie). Numerous cities, towns, and villages are depicted. This map was drawn by Santini from a map that was originally by the Homann Heirs a year earlier. Two years before, in 1773, the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was completed. In 1772, Russian, Prussian, and Austrian troops simultaneously invaded the Commonwealth and occupied territory agreed upon among themselves six months prior to the invasion. The occupiers were delighted with their good fortune and expansion at the expense of the Commonwealth, and forced the ratification of the cession through the Polish parliament in September 1773. The Commonwealth lost approximately thirty percent of its territory, half its population, and eighty percent of its foreign trade production. In the following years, Poland was partitioned twice more, eventually leading to complete disappearance of an independent Polish state in 1795.