La Sphera Artificiale overo Armillare Obliqua Elevata sopra l'Horizonte alla Latitudine di Pariggi

Very rare copy of the Planisphere of the Armillary Sphere by Nicolas de Fer (Paris, late 18th century) printed in Naples by Paolo Petrini's printing house at the beginning of the 18th century.

The map is part of the Atlante Partenopeo, a complex publishing operation carried out by the Neapolitan bookseller and typographer Petrini to collect many of the maps made by him since the last decade of the seventeenth century, drawn substantially from Guillaulme Sanson, Nicolas De Fer and Giacomo Cantelli, and published with updates also for most of the eighteenth century 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 circulating mainly in the Papal States.

Copper engraving, contemporary coloring, in excellent condition. Very rare.