ELWE, Jan Barend – Le Royaume de Naples – 1792 – SOLD

Description

Le Royaume de Naples divisé en douze provinces par sanson amsterdam chez Ian Elwe.

Elwe Jan Barend (1777 – 1777)

Amsterdam Verlag:

Artist: Elwe Jan Barend ( – 1777) Amsterdam;

issued in: Amsterdam;

date: ca 1792, 1777

original coloured; –

condition: Very good; –

size (in cm): 43,5 x 53,5; –

description: Map shows south Italy with its 12 provinces and partly Sicily and Greece with the island Corfu – vita of the artist: Jan Barend Elwe ( 177 – 1815), was a Dutch publisher and book seller who reissued maps by De L Isle and Ottens and some other cartographers in the late 18th century. His famous map “Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en ses Principales Parties” was derived mainly from Sanson?s and Jaillot?s maps of 1656 and 1676. At this time, California was no longer shown as an island, but as a peninsular, and the Great Lakes to the north are enclosed, which was another feature often shown incorrectly on earlier maps of America. This map has been published in 1792 in an Atlas which included 37 other maps of different countries.