| Reference: | S52554 |
| Author | Giambattista ALBRIZZI |
| Year: | 1740 |
| Zone: | Title Page |
| Measures: | 205 x 295 mm |
| Reference: | S52554 |
| Author | Giambattista ALBRIZZI |
| Year: | 1740 |
| Zone: | Title Page |
| Measures: | 205 x 295 mm |
Title page of Atlante Novissimo, che contiene tutte le parti del mondo.
Albrizzi's maps, derived from the works of Guillaulme de L'Isle and Iasaak Tirion, were prepared for his Atlante Novissimo, che contiene tutte le parti del mondo from 1740 (volume 1) - 1750 (volume 2).
Giambattista Albrizzi is part of a family of printers and publishers of Venice from Bergamo. Start of printing was in the last decades of the seventeenth century, Girolamo Albrizzi was succeeded by his son Giambattista, particularly active in the twenty years 1730-50. He gave great impetus to the art printing Venetian, linking its name to a series of magnificent editions, which earned him the collaboration of the best designers and engravers of the time: Piazzetta, Zanetti, Pitteri and Bartolozzi.
Copperplate, in good condition.
Bibliografia
V. Valerio, Cartografi Veneti, p. 139.
Giambattista ALBRIZZI (Venezia 1698 - 1777)
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Giambattista Albrizzi is part of a family of printers and publishers of Venice from Bergamo. Start of printing was in the last decades of the seventeenth century, Girolamo Albrizzi was succeeded by his son Giambattista, particularly active in the twenty years 1730-50. Among the most ancestors of modern journalism, at the end of 1740 obtained by the Reformers of the University of Padua, the privilege of printing "a newspaper containing news and military policies" entitled The New Postiglione. Gave great impetus to the art printing Venetian, linking its name to a series of magnificent editions, which earned him the collaboration of the best designers and engravers of the time: Piazzetta, Zanetti, Pitteri and Bartolozzi. Lit: Valerio, Cartografi Veneti, p. 139
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Giambattista ALBRIZZI (Venezia 1698 - 1777)
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Giambattista Albrizzi is part of a family of printers and publishers of Venice from Bergamo. Start of printing was in the last decades of the seventeenth century, Girolamo Albrizzi was succeeded by his son Giambattista, particularly active in the twenty years 1730-50. Among the most ancestors of modern journalism, at the end of 1740 obtained by the Reformers of the University of Padua, the privilege of printing "a newspaper containing news and military policies" entitled The New Postiglione. Gave great impetus to the art printing Venetian, linking its name to a series of magnificent editions, which earned him the collaboration of the best designers and engravers of the time: Piazzetta, Zanetti, Pitteri and Bartolozzi. Lit: Valerio, Cartografi Veneti, p. 139
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