Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: No. 17: Sheet 4. Carte de l'Empire d'Alemagne avec les Etats de Boheme

Author: 
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793
Author: 
Rizzi Zannoni, Giovanni Antonio Bartolomeo, 1736-1814
Date: 
1762
Short Title: 
No. 17: Sheet 4. Carte de l'Empire d'Alemagne avec les Etats de Boheme
Publisher: 
Lettre et Jean Thomas Herissant
Publisher Location: 
Paris
Type: 
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm: 
31
Obj Width cm: 
45
Scale 1: 
1,800,000
Note: 
Sheet 4 of map of German Empire on 4 sheets. Engraved outlined hand color. Title from sheet 16. Includes dedication note. Shows political and administrative boundaries and place names. Relief shown pictorially. Includes ornamental title cartouche.
Country: 
Germany
Country: 
Hungary
Region: 
Europe, Central
Full Title: 
Carte de l'Empire d'Alemagne avec les Etats de Boheme. Dressee d'apres la carte de l'Academie Royale de Berlin et d'apres plusieurs autres. Par Mr. Rizzi Zannoni de l'Acad. Rle. des Sc. et Belles Let. de Gottingue. A Paris, Chez Lattre. Dediee et presentee a S.E. Monseigneur J.D. Almoreau Tiepolo Ambassadeur Ordinaire pour la Serenissime Republique. De Venise à la Cour de France. (to accompany) Atlas moderne ou collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre.
List No: 
13420.024
Page No: 
No. 17
Series No: 
24
Publication Author: 
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793
Pub Date: 
1762
Pub Title: 
Atlas moderne ou collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre : par plusieurs auteurs. A Paris, Chez Lattre graveur, Rue St. Jacques pres la fontaine St. Severin a la Ville de Bordeaux. Et Jean Thomas Herissant libraire rue St. Jacques a St. Paul et a St. Hilaire.
Pub Note: 
First edition of this world atlas. Published by Lattre Graveur and Jean Thomas Herissant, 1762. Compiled by the best cartographers of the 18th century and gives an exact survey of the world around 1760.  Illustrated title page, by Mounet, 1762, and engraved by Prevost. Containing the armillary sphere and 36 maps, Lacks sheet 25. some in color on double page and tables. Including European maps, also 3 Asian maps, 3 African maps, 4 from the Americas, one from the 12 tribes of Israel and one from the Holy Land.  Maps engraved by Jean Lattre, but a majority of the maps are the work of Bonne. There are some contributions from Janvier and Rizzi-Zannoni, most of them are dated between 1761 and 1764. Showing political and administrative boundaries, rivers, place names, canals, fortifications, forests, lakes, etc. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Bound in full brown sheepskin, with title " Modern Atlas" on spine in gilt.
Pub List No: 
13420.000
Pub Type: 
World Atlas
Pub Maps: 
36
Pub Height cm: 
40
Pub Width cm: 
31
Image No: 
13420024.jp2
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Authors: 
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793 ; Rizzi Zannoni, Giovanni Antonio Bartolomeo, 1736-1814