L'Asia deschritta da Nicolo De Fer Approvata dalla accademia Reale delle Scienze in Parigi e data in Luce da Paolo Petrini i

Very rare map of the Asian continent derived from that of Nicolas de Fer, published in Paris in the late 17th century.

The map is taken from the Atlante Partenopeo by Neapolitan publisher and bookseller Paolo Petrini. The atlas is a complex publishing operation put in place by Petrini to collect many of the maps he produced beginning in the last decade of the 17th century, taken substantially from Guillaulme Sanson, Nicolas De Fer, and Giacomo Cantelli, and published with updates still through much of the 1700s by his son Nicola.

Petrini's atlas represented for the Kingdom of Naples, the equivalent of the Mercurio Geografico printed in Rome by the De Rossi printing house, and circulated mainly in the Papal States.

Copperplate engraving, coeval coloring with retouches, in excellent condition.