Large nice and unusual map of LOWER SAXONY in Germany, by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627-1691) and Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola (1643-1695), with a nice Cartouche titled :


"LI DUCATI DI BRUNSWICK e LUNEBURG che costituiscono parte della BASSA SASSONIA descritti come presentemente Sono divisi tra iPrpi della Casa di Brunswich da Giacomo Cantelli da Vig. Geografo del Ser Duca di Modena e dati in luceda Domenico de Rossi Erede di Gio Giacomo de Rossi in Roma...l'anno 1691". 


With the cities of Hamburg, Hannover, Eimbentz, Heilingen Stadt, Magdeburg, Danneberg, Lawenburg, Neustadt, Gyfhorn, ….


Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi was an italian engraver and painter, at the end of XVIIe Century. His father Giuseppe de Rossi (1570-1639) was the most important and active printer of the XVIIe Century. After his death, Giacomo and his brother Giandominco (1619-1653) taked the firm of the father and made the firm the best known printing house of Italy in XVIIe Century. 


Edition: From "Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in Tutte Le Parti del Mondo".


For this atlas, Giacomo de Rossi worked with Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola.

The firm published also maps from Nicolas Sanson.

Later, the firm was solded to Lorenzo Filippo, knowned as "Calcografia Nazionale", then, the "Regia Calcografica". It still exits today as "Calcografia Nazionale". It is as a museum which owns one of the most important and nice maps of the world.


Size with margins : 60 x 46,5 cm / 23,6 x 18,3 inches


Condition : good condition, on very strong paper, well engraved.


Edition : Rome, dated 1691, XVIIe Century.




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