DE ROSSI, Gio. Giacomo (1627-1691) – ISOLA DI MALTA / GOZZO COMINO E COMINOTO – 1686

Description

DE ROSSI, Gio. Giacomo (1627-1691) – 1686

Title of Map: ISOLA DI MALTA / GOZZO COMINO E COMINOTO

Engraver: Francesco Donia – Fran.s Donia Messanensis Sculp’s.

Cartographer: De Rossi, Gio. Giacomo and Cantelli da Vignola, Giacomo

Title: MERCVRIO GEOGRAFICO

Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi

Place: Rome

Year: 1686

Imprint: Fran.s Donia Messanensis Sculp’s.

Engraving size: 405 x 550mm

Printing method: copper engraving

Notes: The map is in the upper half of the sheet, while a large plan of the harbour area, with a key to place-names is in the lower half of the sheet. De Rossi’s atlas, like Coronelli’s atlas of the same period, has no standard collation. The 95 maps of the first volume are dated between 1667 and 1689 and the forty in the second between 1690 and 1696, they are mainly derived from Sanson and Cantelli da Vignola. Maps of particular interest are: the celestial hemisphere after Francesco Brunacci; Cantelli’s four-sheet wall map of the Low Countries; Ameti’s four-sheet maps of the Patrimonio di S. Pietro and Lazio, showing the environs of Rome in early Christian and contemporary eras; and Cantelli’s four-sheet map of Piemonte.