No. VII Golfo di S. Eufemia, e quello di Gioja, e continuazione della Costa dal Savuto sino alle alle Pietre nere.
"The volume is without binding in loose sheets, but with original bands on the back, a sign of an ancient binding. The content: frontispiece, an engraved index of the tables, 23 numbered tables (I-XXIII) and two original white guard sheets. The folded maps volume measures 68x54 cm, every single...
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| Summary: | "The volume is without binding in loose sheets, but with original bands on the back, a sign of an ancient binding. The content: frontispiece, an engraved index of the tables, 23 numbered tables (I-XXIII) and two original white guard sheets. The folded maps volume measures 68x54 cm, every single sheet 68x98cm. White thick paper in excellent condition, almost perfect. Table III, relating to the Gulf of Naples, is present here in the first edition engraved by Aniello Cataneo in 1785. This table was replaced in 1794 with a new copper engraved this time by Giuseppe Guerra. It is therefore a first edition of the Atlas printed before 1794. Some cards have the SM monogram, initial monogram by “Stefano Merola” from Traetto (a town near Gaeta), to whom the production of paper sheets was entrusted in the imperial format for printing of the geographical maps and for the use of Stamperia Reale, the Royal printing house of Naples (Valerio 1993, p . 158). Other sheets present a cruciferous lamb inserted in a large floral frame (Heawood 2845) and the name "Vittorj" in countermark. It is one of the most important cartographic realizations of the XVIII century, both for the size (23 paper of imperial format), and for being the first nautical Atlas designed on scientific bases in Italy. The interest of the admiral John Acton, who arrived in Naples in 1778 to rearrange the fleet, was decisive for the solicitous execution of the maritime Atlas of the Kingdom of Naples, using staff and ships of the borbonica regia fleet. It is claimed in the cartouche with a title placed in the first table, dated 1785. In just 11 years Neapolitan chartmakers and topographers managed to build an exact and detailed chart of the continental part of the Kingdom of Naples in scale about 1: 90,000. The Maritime Atlas affirmed itself in the European cartographic horizon as one of the first large-scale national hydrographic works - remember that only in 1795 was established the hydrographic office of the Admiralty. To complete this important work, the Court ... |
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