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19 - [ATLAS]. RIZZI-ZANNONI (Giovanni). Étrennes Géographiques.
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Estimate €500 - €700
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[ATLAS]. RIZZI-ZANNONI (Giovanni). Étrennes Géographiques. A fine portable geographical atlas produced by the Italian (Paduan) cartographer Giovanni Rizzi-Zannoni (1736–1814). Paris, Ballard, 1760. In-16 volume (80 x 120 mm), full red morocco, triple fillet framing on the covers with corner fleurons, spine with five raised bands decorated with panels filled with fleurons and foliage in small gilt ironwork, single fillet on the edges, interior lace, all edges gilt, endpapers in domino paper with large flowers in colour and gold. (Contemporary binding). Frontispiece, 4ff. (title, preface and catalogue of maps) and 26 double-page colour maps, mounted on tabs. One corner slightly worn, some signs of handling, stains on the reverse of the first three maps; on the map of Europe, stains on the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. The work is entirely engraved in intaglio; it opens with a lovely allegorical frontispiece, an engraved title page and tables, followed by 26 double-page maps engraved by Durand and Le Roy, hand-coloured and mounted on tabs. They were reduced by Giovanni Antonio Battista Rizzi-Zannoni, based on those by Mr d'Anville, as indicated in the notice. They bear the name of Louis Alexandre du Caille beneath the title. The atlas contains two world maps and maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, America (2), the British Isles, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, France (5), Flanders and the Netherlands, Germany (7), Prussia, Spain and Portugal, and finally Italy. A very well-preserved copy in its original red morocco binding.
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About the sale Fine antique and collectible books, manuscripts and modern illustrated works
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Auction time 06/29/2026 at 2:00 PM
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