Atlante dell'America, published by Giovanni Tommaso Masi in Livorno, 1777. Title translates to: Atlas of America. Bound in original paper boards (front cover and first quire detached). Folio format. Collation: [1] leaf of plates, 15 pages, [44] leaves of plates (25 double). Engraved frontispiece, vignette on title page, and headpiece decorating descriptive text. Maps preceded by a publisher’s preface, as well as collocated text describing each, except for the view, Quebec. Volume comprised of 44 leaves of plates, which include 39 maps and 5 views. Maps show political boundaries, cities, fortifications, roads, canals, ports, topography, vegetation, drainage, coastlines, shoals, islands and water depths. Black and white engravings. First separate edition of this Atlas of the Americas, issued on the advent of the American Revolution. The maps and text in this atlas were first issued during the French and Indian War, in Il Gazzettiere Americano, published by M. Coltenllini in Livorno in 1763. The text for that work was translated from the 1763 London American Gazeteer. Masi republished this section of that work in 1777, as interest in the Americas increased during the American Revolution. Provenance: prior ownership indicated by inscription of Andrea Verrazzani, dated 1827, on front cover.
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Atlante dell'America, published by Giovanni Tommaso Masi in Livorno, 1777. Title translates to: Atlas of America. Bound in original paper boards (front cover and first quire detached). Folio format. Collation: [1] leaf of plates, 15 pages, [44] leaves of plates (25 double). Engraved frontispiece, vignette on title page, and headpiece decorating descriptive text. Maps preceded by a publisher’s preface, as well as collocated text describing each, except for the view, Quebec. Volume comprised of 44 leaves of plates, which include 39 maps and 5 views. Maps show political boundaries, cities, fortifications, roads, canals, ports, topography, vegetation, drainage, coastlines, shoals, islands and water depths. Black and white engravings. First separate edition of this Atlas of the Americas, issued on the advent of the American Revolution. The maps and text in this atlas were first issued during the French and Indian War, in Il Gazzettiere Americano, published by M. Coltenllini in Livorno in 1763. The text for that work was translated from the 1763 London American Gazeteer. Masi republished this section of that work in 1777, as interest in the Americas increased during the American Revolution. Provenance: prior ownership indicated by inscription of Andrea Verrazzani, dated 1827, on front cover.
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