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SANTINI, Paolo (1729-1793). Atlas universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes. Venice: Santini, 1776. First edition of this atlas by the brothers Paolo and Francesco Santini, considered one of the most important universal atlases printed in Italy in the 18th century. The editors substantially reproduced, retaining toponyms and inscriptions in French, the Atlas Universel published in Paris in 1757 by Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, but made several changes, especially to the maps of the Italian regions. The plates, signed by Paolo Santini and his brother Francesco, are based on the works of the best geographers of the time: d'Anville, Bellin, Bonne, Boscovich, Clarici, De L'Isle, Homan, Jaillot, Janvier, de Vaugondy, and Rizzi Zannoni. 2 vols, Folio, (540 x 395mm). Engraved title-page to first volume, 2 index plates at the beginning of each volume, 123 maps divided as follows: 60 double-page maps for the first volume, 63 for the second, contemporary watercolour borders, contemporary manuscript title sand numbering to versos of maps (in very good condition except for the first volume: small wormhole to inner margin of the first twenty leaves affecting the printing area but not particularly visible, ff. 32-34 and 37 with small waterstain to lower margin; in the second: tear to lower margin of ff. 1, 12 and 13 not affecting engraving). Contemporary interim binding with marbled sides, patterned Venetian paper spine. (2)
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SANTINI, Paolo (1729-1793). Atlas universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes. Venice: Santini, 1776. First edition of this atlas by the brothers Paolo and Francesco Santini, considered one of the most important universal atlases printed in Italy in the 18th century. The editors substantially reproduced, retaining toponyms and inscriptions in French, the Atlas Universel published in Paris in 1757 by Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, but made several changes, especially to the maps of the Italian regions. The plates, signed by Paolo Santini and his brother Francesco, are based on the works of the best geographers of the time: d'Anville, Bellin, Bonne, Boscovich, Clarici, De L'Isle, Homan, Jaillot, Janvier, de Vaugondy, and Rizzi Zannoni. 2 vols, Folio, (540 x 395mm). Engraved title-page to first volume, 2 index plates at the beginning of each volume, 123 maps divided as follows: 60 double-page maps for the first volume, 63 for the second, contemporary watercolour borders, contemporary manuscript title sand numbering to versos of maps (in very good condition except for the first volume: small wormhole to inner margin of the first twenty leaves affecting the printing area but not particularly visible, ff. 32-34 and 37 with small waterstain to lower margin; in the second: tear to lower margin of ff. 1, 12 and 13 not affecting engraving). Contemporary interim binding with marbled sides, patterned Venetian paper spine. (2)
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