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Reference: S46861
Author Francesco Costantino MARMOCCHI
Year: 1855
Zone: The World
Printed: Genua
Measures: 390 x 296 mm
€225.00

Reference: S46861
Author Francesco Costantino MARMOCCHI
Year: 1855
Zone: The World
Printed: Genua
Measures: 390 x 296 mm
€225.00

Description

Interesting double hemisphere map of the world on a polar projection, from Marmocchi's scarce Geografia Commerciale. The south polar of the Antarctic is just beginning to be discovered.

Uncommon map prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi to illustrate his Geografia Commerciale. The Atlas was called Il Globo Atlante di carte Geografiche compilate da F.C. Marmocchi per servire di corredo al suo corso di geografia commerciale, printed in Genova by Paolo Rivara, 1858. It is illustrated with the maps engraved by Giuseppe Cattaneo, Carlo Poggiali, Giulio Bonatti and Cesare Magrini.

Marmocchi (Poggibonsi, 1805 - Geneva, 1858) was a well-known geographer and cartographer. In relations with Mazzini, he was involved in the political uprisings of 1831 and suffered harsh persecution that went as far as imprisonment by the Grand Ducal government. Elected in 1848 deputy to the Tuscan Parliament, he was appointed by grand-ducal decree Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior then held by Guerrazzi. Then emigrated to Rome, and even after in Corsica, which searched at length with Gregorovius, then settled in Turin and, finally, in Genoa, where he remained for the rest of his life attending mainly to geographical compilations.

Copperplate with original colour, light waterstain, otherwise very good condition.

Francesco Costantino MARMOCCHI (Poggibonsi 1805 - Genova 1858)

Italian geographer, he was the author of several works on geography: Corso di geografia universale sviluppato in cento lezioni (I-III, Firenze 1840-43), Geografia d’Italia in two volumes; lAbrégé de la géographie de l’île de Corse (Bastia 1852); Corso di geografia commerciale in two volumes; anAtlas in folio including 50 plates (Genova 1854-57); and unfinished works as Dizionario di geografia universale (I-II, Torino 1858-62) and Descrizione geografica, cartografica e storica dell’Impero anglo-indiano, published in installments from1857 (continued by G. Flecchia).

Francesco Costantino MARMOCCHI (Poggibonsi 1805 - Genova 1858)

Italian geographer, he was the author of several works on geography: Corso di geografia universale sviluppato in cento lezioni (I-III, Firenze 1840-43), Geografia d’Italia in two volumes; lAbrégé de la géographie de l’île de Corse (Bastia 1852); Corso di geografia commerciale in two volumes; anAtlas in folio including 50 plates (Genova 1854-57); and unfinished works as Dizionario di geografia universale (I-II, Torino 1858-62) and Descrizione geografica, cartografica e storica dell’Impero anglo-indiano, published in installments from1857 (continued by G. Flecchia).