Carta generale del Polo Antartica / Marzolla, Benedetto / 1842

Carta generale del Polo Antartica Marzolla, Benedetto, 1842

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

Author: Marzolla, Benedetto

Date: 1842

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Author: Marzolla, Benedetto

Date: 1842

Short Title: Carta generale del Polo Antartica

Publisher: Naples: (B. Marzolla).

Type: Atlas Map

Object Height cm: 44

Object Width cm: 52

Scale 1: 22,500,000

Note: Hand col. lithographed map. Shows explorers' routes. Includes table and note. Prime meridian: Paris.

World Area: Antarctica

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

List No: 4714.049

Page No: 49

Series No: 51

Published In: (Atlante Geografico. Napoli, Benedetto Marzolla, 1856)

Publication Author: Marzolla, Benedetto

Publication Date: 1856

Publication Reference: 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.

Publication Note: 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.

Publication List No: 4714.000

Publication Type: World Atlas

Publication Maps: 49

Publication Height cm: 51

Publication Width cm: 39

Image No: 4714049

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