Carta generale del Polo Antartica. Benedetto Marzolla, Napoli 1842, esegui col pennello su pietra, Real Litografia Militare.

• Main Author: Marzolla, Benedetto
• Other Authors: Rumsey Collection
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: B. Marzolla Naples 1842
• Subjects: Polo; Antarc*; Antarctica; antartic*
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Hand col. lithographed map. Shows explorers' routes. Includes table and note. Prime meridian: Paris. This is a very attractive and scarce atlas by a cartographer from Naples. Not in Phillips or British Museum. Marzolla prints extensive notes with his maps, listing his cartographic sources and giving political and statistical information on the areas covered. No title page (probably issued that way) and with a manuscript list of contents. The map of "Nuova California" is based on the Hypolite Ferry map of 1850 and is discussed by Wheat. The maps are dated from 1840 to 1856. Outline color. The covers are brown paper covered boards with a leather spine embossed with "Marzolla. Atlante geografico. G.B." in gilt. Valerio, V. Atlanti Napoletani (1806-1860); Valerio, V. Società Uomini e Istituzioni cartografiche nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia; Benedetto Marzolla Disegnatore e Cartografo Brindisino, Atti del Convegno Settimana della Cartografia, Liceo Classico B. Marzolla Brindisi, 5-10 maggio 1997; Tooley Dictionary p.423; Wheat, C.I. Maps of the Calif. gold region, 191; Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 714, 673.