Composite atlas

Italy before unification, divided into duchies, legations and kingdoms, dominates these maps from a composite atlas assemble...

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Italy before unification, divided into duchies, legations and kingdoms, dominates these maps from a composite atlas assembled from separately published eighteenth-century sheets. Unlike a uniform publisher's atlas, it brings together the French and German work of Homann, Nolin, Vaugondy and d'Anville, with varied title designs and dates from the first half of the century to its middle decades. Lazio, Mantua, Modena, Reggio, Bologna and the Kingdom of Naples each appear as distinct units, so a collector of historical Italy can compare several contemporary ways of dividing the peninsula from a single recorded provenance. West African coastal mapping takes the volume beyond Europe.

Italy before unification, divided into duchies, legations and kingdoms, dominates these maps from a composite atlas assembled from separately published eighteenth-century sheets. Unlike a uniform publisher's atlas, it brings together the French and German work of Homann, Nolin, Vaugondy and d'Anville, with varied title designs and dates from the first half of the century to its middle decades. Lazio, Mantua, Modena, Reggio, Bologna and the Kingdom of Naples each appear as distinct units, so a collector of historical Italy can compare several contemporary ways of dividing the peninsula from a single recorded provenance. West African coastal mapping takes the volume beyond Europe.

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