After TIRION, Isaac (1705-1765). Nuova Carta dell Asia. [Venice: 1740].

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After TIRION, Isaac (1705-1765). Nuova Carta dell Asia. [Venice: 1740].

Engraved hand-coloured chart (294 x 363 mm.), watermark lion, untrimmed margins. The chart covers from East to West the Foot of Italy and the Congo to New Guinea, and from North to South from Nova Zembla to Australia and Madagascar, major mountain ranges, rivers, and towns indicated, seas named, compass rose. (Vertical centre fold, repaired cut on right affecting image, some light staining, unobtrusive surface dirt.) Koeman Tir 1. And an Eighteenth Century chart of Sunda and Moluques Isles by Bonne, and three Nineteenth Century charts, two of the Pacific Ocean, and one of Asia and Australasia. (5)

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(1) This is a contemporary Italian imitation of the first edition of Tirion's first Atlas, the Nieuwe en beknopte Handatlas, Amsterdam, 1740. No copy of the first edition seems to have survived, and it is known only through the Italian edition of the same year, of which the above chart formed a part. For further discussion see Koeman III, p. 126.

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