Plan de Rome, Extrait de celui qui fut Publié Par J. B. Nolli, en 1748
| Reference: | S45913 |
| Author | Joseph Jerome de la LANDE |
| Year: | 1786 |
| Zone: | Rome |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 395 x 275 mm |
€250.00
| Reference: | S45913 |
| Author | Joseph Jerome de la LANDE |
| Year: | 1786 |
| Zone: | Rome |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 395 x 275 mm |
€250.00
Description
Plan of the city of Rome embraced by legend with 83 keys, title along upper margin, milestone scale along lower margin. As indicated in the title, it is based on Giovan Battista Nolli's wall map of 1748.
Taken from the “Voyage en Italie contenant l'histoire les anecdotes les plus singulieres de l'Italie, sa description; les usages, le gouvernement, le commerce, la littérature, les arts, l'histoire naturelle, les antiquités ... par m. De La Lande" published in Paris in 1786.
Etching, finely hand-colored, in excellent condition.
Joseph Jerome de la LANDE (Bourg-en-Bresse 1732 – Parigi 1807)
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In 1760 Lalande became professor of astronomy in the Collège de France, holding the post for 46 years, and in 1768 was appointed director of the Paris Observatory. He wrote
Histoire céleste française (French celestial history, 1801) contained a catalog of over 47,000 stars. During 1765-1766, he travelled in Italy. There he met the Pope and petitioned him to remove the writings of Copernicus and Galileo from the Index of prohibited works. He published an account in Voyage d'un français en Italie (1769) which ran to eight volumes.
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Joseph Jerome de la LANDE (Bourg-en-Bresse 1732 – Parigi 1807)
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In 1760 Lalande became professor of astronomy in the Collège de France, holding the post for 46 years, and in 1768 was appointed director of the Paris Observatory. He wrote
Histoire céleste française (French celestial history, 1801) contained a catalog of over 47,000 stars. During 1765-1766, he travelled in Italy. There he met the Pope and petitioned him to remove the writings of Copernicus and Galileo from the Index of prohibited works. He published an account in Voyage d'un français en Italie (1769) which ran to eight volumes.
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