Late eighteenth century map of Asia

SOCIETA CALCOGRAFICA.

L'Asie Diviseé Dan Ses Principaux États, Empires, et Royaumes dressé et augmentée des plus exactes nouvelles decouvertes qui ont fait en plusieurs fois les plus celebres Capitains Cook et Meares.
Venice: la Societè Chalcografique, 1799. Original colour. 480 x 640mm.

A rare map of Asia, in the style of Antonio Zatta with a scenic title cartouche, but folio-sized. It comes from a never-finished atlas by the 'Società Calcografia', a partnership of the two main Venetian publishers of the period, Zatta and Giuseppe Antonio Remondini, which probably ended with Zatta's death in 1804.
The title refers to John Meares (c.1756-1809), an English fur trader who nearly caused war with Spain in the 'Nootka Crisis'.


Stock ID : 7742