Zatta’s map of india

By ZATTA, Antonio, 1785

Stato del Mogol con L’Isole di Ceilan e Maldive

Asia India

Author: ZATTA, Antonio
Publication place: Venice
Publication date: 1785
Physical description: Engraved map, original colour.
Dimensions: 420 by 325mm. (16.5 by 12.75 inches).
Inventory reference: 11419

Notes

A map of India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives with a decorative cartouche on the lower right. The map was first issued in Zatta’s Atlante Nuovissimo, a monumental four volume work and one of the last great decorative atlases.

Biography

Antonio Zatta (1757–1797)

Antonio Zatta was an Italian printer and publisher, active in Venice. He published informative and beautifully engraved works showing new discoveries, including Nouve scoperte de’ Russi al nord in 1776, which shows a Chinese colony where Vancouver Island is now located, and America Settentrionale in 1780, which shows two straits which appear to join in the middle to form a Strait of Anian or Northwest Passage.

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