CARTA GEOGRAFICA DEL REGNO DI CORSICA
£395
Attractive map of Corsica by Albrizzi but based on De L'Isle.
Decorative map with allegorical scene with title cartouche bottom left. Compass rose. Very detailed with mountains, rivers and forests marked.
Small closed tear in margin
Excellent hand colour.
Very good condition.
Published in 'Lo Stato Presente di Tutti i Paesi, e Popoli del Mondo...,'
code : M5385
Cartographer : Albrizzi Giovani
Date : 1740 Venice
Size : 33.5*43 cms sheet size 35*45 cms
availability : Available
Price : £395
Although Venice had been the centre of the European map-trade in the 1550s, its importance had been subsequently eclipsed by Antwerp and then Amsterdam in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. So it was from Amsterdam that Giovanni Battista (Giovambattista) Albrizzi, the Italian, took inspiration for his best-known atlas - the Nieuwe En Beknopte Handatlas ... by Isaak Tirion was translated into Italian and published in Venice by Albrizzi. Albrizzi was also responsible for publishing an edition of Guillaume De L'Isle's atlas as Atlante Novissimo.
