Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Jollain, Gerhard, Berey, Nicolas, Du Val, Pierre, 1619-1683]
Full Title
(Covers to) [Composite World Atlas]
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15185.001
Author
[Jollain, Gerhard, Hondius, Jodocus]
Full Title
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula .
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15185.002
Author
[Berey, Nicolas, Jaillot, Hubert]
Full Title
L'Europe Corrigee, et augmentee, desus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes.
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15185.003
Author
Berey, Nicolas
Full Title
Carte L'Asie Corrigee, et augmentee, desus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes
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15185.004
Author
Berey, Nicolas
Full Title
Carte L'Afrique Corrigee, et augmentee, desus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes .
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15185.005
Author
Berey, Nicolas
Full Title
Carte L'Amerique Corrigee, et augmentee, desus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes . . .
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15185.006
Author
Lagniet
Full Title
Royaume de Sicile
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15185.012
Author
Jollain, Gerhard
Full Title
Nouvelle Carte Generalle Des Dix Sept Provinces
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15185.021
Author
Lagniet
Full Title
Carte des Provinces Unies des Pays Bas connues soubs le nom de Hollande et pays circonvoisins ou l'on voitee qu'elles ont possede depuis leur Union a Utrecht l'an 1579 jusques a l'annee 1672 que la France a reduit en partie a son obeissace …
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15185.022
Author
Rosaccio, Louigi
Full Title
[Piemonte]
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15185.036
Author
Du Val, Pierre, 1619-1683
Full Title
(Composite map of) Les Costes Des Royaumes de Fez, Alger, Tunis et Tripoli en Barbarie Suivant les Routiers et Portolans de divers Pilotes
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15185.039
Author
Jollain, Gerhard
Full Title
L'Angleterre Novissima Descriptio Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae
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15185.041
Author
Du Val, Pierre, 1619-1683
Full Title
Moscovie dite autrement Grande et Blanche Russie
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15185.047
Author
Du Val, Pierre, 1619-1683
Full Title
L'Ocean pres d'Europe, avec les Costes de France, d'Espagne, de Portugal, d'Angeletrre. de Holande, de Danemarc &c. . . .(Du Val 1666)
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15185.050
Author
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
Full Title
La Chine Royaume . . . (Mariette 1656)
List No
15185.051
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
Estats de L'Empire du Grand Seigneur des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans en Asie en Afrique, et en Europe
List No
15185.054
Author
Lagniet, Jacques
Full Title
Terra Sancta Promssionis olim Palestina
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15185.057
Author
Du Val, Pierre, 1619-1683
Full Title
Carte des Indes Orientales
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15185.058
Author
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
Full Title
L'Inde deca et de la Gange, ou est l'Empire du Grande Mogol et Pays Circonvoisins
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15185.059
Author
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
Full Title
Desription de l'Empire du Sophi des Persese tiree en partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, et en partie plusieurs et diverses Relations
List No
15185.060
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657]
Full Title
(Title page to) Cartes Exactes & Particulieres de La Flandre ou des Pays Catholiques ou sont les Duches de Brabant, LImbourg Luxembourg; &c. les Comtes des Flandres, Artois Haynaut, Namur &c. & les Estats de Treves, Cambray, & Lyege . . . . Par Nicolas Sanson . . . M. DC. LVIII
List No
15185.061
Note
Maps of Belgium.
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657]
Full Title
Picardie et les Pays Bas Catholiques etc.
List No
15185.062
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657]
Full Title
Menapii -- Evesches d'Anvers et de Bosleduc -- Partie Septentrinale du Duche de Brabant
List No
15185.063
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657]
Full Title
(Title page to) Cartes Exactes & Particulieres de Picardie, Champagne, & Lorraine, &c. Les Dioceses Des Archevesches & Evesches . . . Pars Nicolas Sanson . . . M. DC. LVIII
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15185.074
Note
Northern & Central France
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657]
Full Title
Gouvernement General De La Picardie, Artois, Boulenois, et Pays Reconquis &c
List No
15185.075
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657]
Full Title
Oromansaci, et Gesoriacus Pagus in Morinis -- Evesche de Boulogne. ou sont les Comte, et Seneschesse de Boulenois. Balliage de Calais dans le Pays Reconquis
List No
15185.076
Author
Jollain, Gerhard
Full Title
Description de la Hautte Alsace et Suntgow Avec Partie du Territoire de Basle. Carte Generale de la Haute et Basse Alsace.
List No
15185.097
Note
(Attached to Back Cover)
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
(Title Page to) L'Evrope. Dediee a Monseigneur. Monseigneur le Tellier, secret. d'estat &c. Par N. Sanson le fils Geographe du Roy. A Paris chez l'Autheur avec privilege pour 20 ans.
List No
11573.002
Note
Atlas of Europe, dedicated to Michel Le Tellier. With double page engraved decorative title page, unnumbered explanatory text and 12 folded maps of various Empires, Kingdom, States, Republics and Islands. Maps are copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche, some engraved by A. Peyrounin. Showing major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. First volume of the first edition of Sanson's quarto atlas, a geographical description of the four continents of the world in separate volumes, L'Evrope, Asie, Afrique, Ameriqve, each with engraved title page, accompanied by text and folded maps, bound in full brown calf with rich gold decoration and gold title on spine. Published over the period 1648 to 1657, these are the first atlases published by Sanson, a noted French historian and cartographer, the geographer to the French king. Most of the maps were engraved especially for these works and are not reductions of larger previously published map
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
Evrope. Par N. Sanson le fils. Geographe du Roy. A Paris chez l'Autheur avec privilege pour 20 ans. (to accompany) L'Evrope. Dediee a Monseigneur. Monseigneur le Tellier, secret. d'estat &c. Par N. Sanson le fils Geographe du Roy.
List No
11573.005
Note
Copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline map, with decorative cartouche. Showing political divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
Isles Britanniqves. P. N. Sanson le fils. (to accompany) L'Evrope. Dediee a Monseigneur. Monseigneur le Tellier, secret. d'estat &c. Par N. Sanson le fils Geographe du Roy. A Paris chez l'autheur avec privilege pour 20 ans.
List No
11573.007
Note
Copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline map, with decorative cartouche. Showing political divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
(Title Page to) L'Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traittes de geographie, et d'histoire. La ou sont descripts succinctement, & avec une belle methode, & facile ses empires, ses monarchies, ses estats, &c. les moeurs, les langues, les religions, les richesses de ses peuples, &c. Et ce qu'il y a de plus beau, & de plus rare dans toutes ses parties, & dans ses isles. Par N. Sanson d' Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. A Paris, Chez l'Autheur, dans le cloistre de Sainct Germain l'Auxerrois, joignant la grande porte du cloistre. Avec privilege pour vingt Ans.
List No
11574.002
Note
Atlas of Asia, dedicated to Nicolas Fouquet, 104 pages of explanatory text and 17 folded maps of various Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics and Islands. Maps based on Jesuit missionary sources, copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouches, some engraved by A. Peyrounin. Showing major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. This is the second volume of the first edition of Sanson's quarto Atlas, a geographical description of the four continents of the world in four separate volumes, L'Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amerique, each with engraved title page, accompanied by text and folded maps, bound in full brown calf with rich gold decoration and gold title on spine. Published over the period 1648 to 1657, these are the first atlases published by Sanson, a noted French historian and cartographer, the geographer to the French king. Most of the maps were engraved especially for these works and are not reductions of larger previously published maps.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
L'Asie : Par le Sieur Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe ordinaire du Roy. A Paris, Chez l'Autheur. Avec privilege pour vingt Ans 1652. A. Peyrounin Sculp. (to accompany) L'Asie en plvsievrs cartes novvelles, et exactes ...
List No
11574.006
Note
Copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline map, with decorative cartouche. Showing political divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Includes compass rose oriented with the north to upper center.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
Tvrqvie en Asie : Par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe du Roy. Avec privilege pour vingt Ans 1652. (to accompany) L'Asie en plvsievrs cartes novvelles, et exactes ... A Paris, Chez l'Autheur.
List No
11574.010
Note
Copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline map, with decorative cartouche. Showing boundaries, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
(Title Page to) L'Afriqve en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traittes de geographie, et d'histoire. La ou sont descripts succinctement, & avec vne belle methode, & facile ses empires, ses monarchies, ses estats, &c. les moevrs, les langves, les religions, les richesses de ses pevples, &c. Et ce qu'il y a de plus beau, & de plus rare dans toutes ses parties, & dans ses isles. Dediee a messire Nicolas Fovcqvet vicomte de Melvn, et de Vavx ... Par N. Sanson d' Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. A Paris chez l'Autheur.
List No
11575.002
Note
Atlas of Africa, dedicated to Nicolas Fouquet, with 18 double page of maps, each followed by several pages of text describing the area shown on the map. Including maps of various Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics and Islands. Maps are copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouches, some engraved by J. L'huillier (J. L.) and A Peyrounin. Showing political divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. This is the third volume of the first edition of Sanson's quarto Atlas, a geographical description of the four continents of the world in separate volumes, L'Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amerique, each with engraved title page, accompanied by text and folded maps, bound in full brown calf with rich gold decoration and gold title on spine. Published over the period 1648 to 1657, these are the first atlases published by Sanson, a noted French historian and cartographer, the geographer to the French king. Most of the maps were engraved especially for these works and are not reductions of larger previously published maps.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
Afrique. Par le Sur. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe du Roy. Avec privilege pour vingtans. A Paris chez l'Autheur. 1656. A. Peyrounin sculp. (to accompany) L'Afriqve en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traittes de geographie, et d'histoire.
List No
11575.005
Note
Copper engraved double page map, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche, engraved by A Peyrounin. Showing political divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
Royaume De Maroc divise en sept Provinces &c. : Tire de Sanut, de Marmol, &c. Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geographe ordinaire du Roy. Avec privilege pour 20 ans. 1656. (to accompany) L'Afriqve en plusieurs cartes novvelles, et exactes; & en divers traittes de geographie, et d'histoire.
List No
11575.011
Note
Copper engraved double page map, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche. Showing administrative divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
(Title Page to) L'Amerique en plusieurs cartes, & en divers traitte's de geographie et d'histoire : la ou sont descripts succinctement, & avec vne belle methode & facile : ses empires, ses peuples, ses colonies, leurs moeurs, langues, religions, richesse &c. : et ce qu'il y a de plus beau, & de plus rare dans toutes ses parties & dans ses isles. Dediee a Monseigneur Monseigneur Foucquet ... Par N. Sanson d' Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. A Paris chez l'Autheur.
List No
11576.002
Note
Atlas of Americas, dedicated to Nicolas Fouquet, with 15 folded maps and explanatory text of various empires, peoples, colonies, customs, languages, religions and wealth. Maps are copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche, some engraved by A. Peyrounin. Showing administrative and political divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. This is the fourth volume of the first edition of Sanson's quarto Atlas, a geographical description of the four continents of the world in four separate volumes, L'Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amerique, each with engraved title page, accompanied by text and folded maps, bound in full brown calf with rich gold decoration and gold title on spine. Published over the period 1648 to 1657, these are the first atlases published by Sanson, a noted French historian and cartographer, the geographer to the French king. Most of the maps were engraved especially for these works and are not reductions of larger previously published maps.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
Americque Septentrionale. Par le Sr. Sanson d' Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy ... 1657. A. Peyrouin, sculp. (to accompany) L'Amerique en plusieurs cartes, & en divers traitte's de geographie et d'histoire. A Paris chez l'Autheur.
List No
11576.008
Note
Copper engraved double page map of North America with California as an Island, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche, engraved by A Peyrounin. Covers all of North America from Baffin Bay and Greenland, to Central America in the south. Showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Author
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Full Title
Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France &c. : tiree de diverses relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois, &c. Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe ordre du Roy ... 1657. (to accompany) L'Amerique en plusieurs cartes, & en divers traitte's de geographie et d'histoire ... A Paris chez l'Autheur.
List No
11576.012
Note
Copper engraved double page map of Canada and the Great Lakes. Showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Author
[Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691, Rossi, Domenico de, 1647-1729, Baudrand, Michel-Antoine, 1633-1700, Cantelli, Giacomo, 1643-1695, Barbey, Antonio-fl. 1684-1714]
Full Title
(Title Page to) Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo, conforme le tavole geografiche del Sansone, Baudrand e Cantelli. Data in luce con direttione, e cura di Gio. Giacomo de Rossi nella sua stamperia in Roma alla Pace, all'insegna di Parigi con Priu: del S. Pont. Tomo Primo. (Half title) La guida del Mercurio geografico per tutte le parte del mondo.
List No
11438.003
Note
A fine example of De Rossi's atlas, in 2 volumes, similar to Coronelli's atlas of the same period, with engraved decorative title page. Includes 150 engraved outline hand colored maps with decorative title cartouche, on 181 sheets. Some maps having 2-4 page numbers. Index includes plates 1-95 of the first volume, and plates 96-181 in the second volume. Maps dated between 1669 and 1715, issued by Giov. Giac. de Rossi and Domenico de Rossi, they are mainly derived from Cantelli da Vignola's maps, an important seventeenth-century cartographer who pioneered the Italian style of fine bold engraving that would eventually be embraced and expanded upon by Vincenzo Coronelli, and Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography. Maps engraved by Baudrand, Franciscus Donia, G.B. Falda, Jean Lhuilier, Vin Mariotti, Gasparo Pietro Santa, Salomon Rogiers, & Giorgio Widman, Lubin, Titi, Ameti, Magini and Mattei. Bound in blue half leather binding. Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (1627 - 1691) was an Italian printer and publisher active in 17th century Rome. Giovanni inherited the important Rome based printing business originally founded by his father, Giuseppe de Rossi (1570-1639). By the mid-17th century the Rossi firm was considered the most active and important press in Rome.
Author
Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712
Full Title
Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique.
List No
12044.007
Note
Date as on map sheet or, if absent, 1695.
Author
[Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712, Mortier, Pierre, Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667]
Full Title
(Title Page) Atlas Nouveau Contenant Toutes Les Parties du Monde, ou Sont exactement Remarques Les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Estats, Republiques & Peuples qui fy trouuent a present. Par le Sr. Sanson, Geographe ordinaire du Roy. Presente a Monseigeur le Dauphin ... Hubert Jaillot Geographe du Roy. A Paris, Chez Hubert Jaillot ....
List No
12178.001
Note
Illuminated.
Author
[Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712, Mortier, Pierre, Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667]
Full Title
(Index Page) Table des Cartes etc. Du Sr. Sanson, Contenues Dans ce Vollume.
List No
12178.002
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Sanson, Guillaume (1633-1703)]
Full Title
(Title Page) Cartes et Tables de la Geographie Ancienne et Nouvelle ou Methode pour s'Instruire Avec facilite de la Geographie, et Connoistre des Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Estats, Republiques, et Peuples ... Par les Srs. Sanson, Geographes du Roy ... A Paris. Chez l'Autheur ... 1697. (Maps and Tables of Geography Ancient and Modern or Methods for Easy Instruction of the Geography and Understanding of Empires, Monarchies, Kingdoms, States, Republics, and Peoples ... By Srs. Sanson, Geographers to the King ... In Paris ... House of the Author ... 1697.)
List No
9741.003
Note
Includes large vignette with a woman, man and coat-of-arms. This is a very rare edition of Sanson's maps, published by his son, Guillaume Sanson. The title page is dated 1697 but the latest date on a map in the atlas is 1709. In French and Latin. Three volume set. Volume I is a huge set of hierarchies presenting the relative arrangement of thousands of places. Each page has from four to six levels of places, for example ranging from a country level down through states and counties on down to cities and towns. In cataloging, for the title of each page,we just list the first highest level place on the page. In the Short Title, liberty as been taken to explain the subjects of the page in English in more detail. Relief shown by sketches. Outline color.
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Tavernier, Melchior, 1594-1665, Cordier, Robert]
Full Title
Galliæ Antiquæ Descriptio Geographica, autore Nicolao Sanson Abbavillæo. Anno 1627. / Roberto Cordier sculpsit
List No
10151.015
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Dedication in the top right corner, to Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême (1573-1650), illegitimate son of Charles IX. Short introduction to the map, including its classical sources, in the bottom left corner, in a decorative cartouche flanked by Mercury and Hercules, who stand on the branches of a shrub. Below, obscuring the trunk issuing these branches, is subsidiary cartouche noting Sanson's royal privilege. Two small scale bars along the bottom edge of the map. Cordier's signature in the bottom right, on a small sheet suspended from a hook. Surrounded by Latin descriptions of the regions of Gaul, formed into a u-shape around the map, with an extract from the text of the royal privilege in the bottom right corner, above Tavernier's imprint.
Author
[Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691, Rossi, Domenico de, 1647-1729, Baudrand, Michel-Antoine, 1633-1700, Cantelli, Giacomo, 1643-1695, Barbey, Antonio-fl. 1684-1714]
Full Title
(Covers to) Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo, conforme le tavole geografiche del Sansone, Baudrand e Cantelli. Data in luce con direttione, e cura di Gio. Giacomo de Rossi nella sua stamperia in Roma alla Pace, all'insegna di Parigi con Priu: del S. Pont. Tomo Primo. (Half title) La guida del Mercurio geografico per tutte le parte del mondo.
List No
11438.001
Note
A fine example of De Rossi's atlas, in 2 volumes, similar to Coronelli's atlas of the same period, with engraved decorative title page. Includes 150 engraved outline hand colored maps with decorative title cartouche, on 181 sheets. Some maps having 2-4 page numbers. Index includes plates 1-95 of the first volume, and plates 96-181 in the second volume. Maps dated between 1669 and 1715, issued by Giov. Giac. de Rossi and Domenico de Rossi, they are mainly derived from Cantelli da Vignola's maps, an important seventeenth-century cartographer who pioneered the Italian style of fine bold engraving that would eventually be embraced and expanded upon by Vincenzo Coronelli, and Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography. Maps engraved by Baudrand, Franciscus Donia, G.B. Falda, Jean Lhuilier, Vin Mariotti, Gasparo Pietro Santa, Salomon Rogiers, & Giorgio Widman, Lubin, Titi, Ameti, Magini and Mattei. Bound in blue half leather binding. Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (1627 - 1691) was an Italian printer and publisher active in 17th century Rome. Giovanni inherited the important Rome based printing business originally founded by his father, Giuseppe de Rossi (1570-1639). By the mid-17th century the Rossi firm was considered the most active and important press in Rome.
Author
[Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691, Rossi, Domenico de, 1647-1729, Baudrand, Michel-Antoine, 1633-1700, Cantelli, Giacomo, 1643-1695, Barbey, Antonio-fl. 1684-1714]
Full Title
(Half Title Page to) Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo, conforme le tavole geografiche del Sansone, Baudrand e Cantelli. Data in luce con direttione, e cura di Gio. Giacomo de Rossi nella sua stamperia in Roma alla Pace, all'insegna di Parigi con Priu: del S. Pont. Tomo Primo. (Half title) La guida del Mercurio geografico per tutte le parte del mondo.
List No
11438.002
Note
A fine example of De Rossi's atlas, in 2 volumes, similar to Coronelli's atlas of the same period, with engraved decorative title page. Includes 150 engraved outline hand colored maps with decorative title cartouche, on 181 sheets. Some maps having 2-4 page numbers. Index includes plates 1-95 of the first volume, and plates 96-181 in the second volume. Maps dated between 1669 and 1715, issued by Giov. Giac. de Rossi and Domenico de Rossi, they are mainly derived from Cantelli da Vignola's maps, an important seventeenth-century cartographer who pioneered the Italian style of fine bold engraving that would eventually be embraced and expanded upon by Vincenzo Coronelli, and Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography. Maps engraved by Baudrand, Franciscus Donia, G.B. Falda, Jean Lhuilier, Vin Mariotti, Gasparo Pietro Santa, Salomon Rogiers, & Giorgio Widman, Lubin, Titi, Ameti, Magini and Mattei. Bound in blue half leather binding. Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (1627 - 1691) was an Italian printer and publisher active in 17th century Rome. Giovanni inherited the important Rome based printing business originally founded by his father, Giuseppe de Rossi (1570-1639). By the mid-17th century the Rossi firm was considered the most active and important press in Rome.
Author
[Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691, Rossi, Domenico de, 1647-1729, Baudrand, Michel-Antoine, 1633-1700, Cantelli, Giacomo, 1643-1695, Barbey, Antonio-fl. 1684-1714]
Full Title
(Index Page to) Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo, conforme le tavole geografiche del Sansone, Baudrand e Cantelli. Data in luce con direttione, e cura di Gio. Giacomo de Rossi nella sua stamperia in Roma alla Pace, all'insegna di Parigi con Priu: del S. Pont. Tomo Primo. (Half title) La guida del Mercurio geografico per tutte le parte del mondo.
List No
11438.004
Note
A fine example of De Rossi's atlas, in 2 volumes, similar to Coronelli's atlas of the same period, with engraved decorative title page. Includes 150 engraved outline hand colored maps with decorative title cartouche, on 181 sheets. Some maps having 2-4 page numbers. Index includes plates 1-95 of the first volume, and plates 96-181 in the second volume. Maps dated between 1669 and 1715, issued by Giov. Giac. de Rossi and Domenico de Rossi, they are mainly derived from Cantelli da Vignola's maps, an important seventeenth-century cartographer who pioneered the Italian style of fine bold engraving that would eventually be embraced and expanded upon by Vincenzo Coronelli, and Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography. Maps engraved by Baudrand, Franciscus Donia, G.B. Falda, Jean Lhuilier, Vin Mariotti, Gasparo Pietro Santa, Salomon Rogiers, & Giorgio Widman, Lubin, Titi, Ameti, Magini and Mattei. Bound in blue half leather binding. Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (1627 - 1691) was an Italian printer and publisher active in 17th century Rome. Giovanni inherited the important Rome based printing business originally founded by his father, Giuseppe de Rossi (1570-1639). By the mid-17th century the Rossi firm was considered the most active and important press in Rome.
Author
[Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691, Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Rossi, Lorenzo Filippo, Pietrasanta, Gasparo da]
Full Title
Veteris Germaniae tabulam. A Nicolao Sanson olim vulgatam, nunc aeris typis Dominici di Rossi. Ad templum Pais iterum editam, Reumo. Pri D. Odoardo Zanchini. Canlnicoru Regum. Lateranensuim Abbati Meritissimo. D.D.D. Addictmus. et Pbseqmus. seruus Laurentius Philippus de Rossi. Gaspar Pietrasanta incidit, Anno 1712. (to accompany) Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo ... Tomo Primo. (Map 16).
List No
11438.020
Note
Outline hand colored map, with decorative title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially. Shows political and administrative divisions, cities, towns, landmarks, forests, rivers and mountains.
Author
[Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691, Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Widman, Giorgio]
Full Title
Imperio d'Allemagna diviso in dieci Cerchi quali cerchi sono ne suoi principali Stati Il Regno di Boemia e le Provincie da esso dependenti. Nuovame rivisto e corretto per N. Sansone Geografo Ordo. del Ré Christianiso. Giorgio Widman sculpsit. E di nuovo data in luce da Giuo Giacomo de Rosi in Roma alla Pace con Privil. del S. Pont 1696. (to accompany) Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo ... Tomo Primo. (Map 17).
List No
11438.021
Note
Outline hand colored map, with decorative title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially. Shows political and administrative divisions, cities, towns, landmarks, forests, rivers and mountains.
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