![[SANTINI, P. François (c.1729-1793), publisher]. Atlas Universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes. Venice: par P. Santini, chez Remondini, 1784. 2 volumes, 2° (523 x 382mm). Engraved allegorical title, engraved index in each volume, and 136 double-page maps after Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, J.B.B. d'Anville, Jacques Bellin, Rigobert Bonne, Jean Denis Janvier, Rizzi-Zannoni and others, hand-coloured in outline, several folding. Letterpress index leaf at end of vol. II. (Mainly marginal light staining and soiling, occasional creasing, a few short tears and small repairs, folding map of Italy strengthened on verso.) 20th-century tree calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels (extremities rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0308_001(santini_p_francois_publisher_atlas_universel_dresse_sur_les_meilleures031442).jpg?w=1)
![[SANTINI, P. François (c.1729-1793), publisher]. Atlas Universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes. Venice: par P. Santini, chez Remondini, 1784. 2 volumes, 2° (523 x 382mm). Engraved allegorical title, engraved index in each volume, and 136 double-page maps after Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, J.B.B. d'Anville, Jacques Bellin, Rigobert Bonne, Jean Denis Janvier, Rizzi-Zannoni and others, hand-coloured in outline, several folding. Letterpress index leaf at end of vol. II. (Mainly marginal light staining and soiling, occasional creasing, a few short tears and small repairs, folding map of Italy strengthened on verso.) 20th-century tree calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels (extremities rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0308_002(santini_p_francois_publisher_atlas_universel_dresse_sur_les_meilleures031457).jpg?w=1)
![[SANTINI, P. François (c.1729-1793), publisher]. Atlas Universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes. Venice: par P. Santini, chez Remondini, 1784. 2 volumes, 2° (523 x 382mm). Engraved allegorical title, engraved index in each volume, and 136 double-page maps after Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, J.B.B. d'Anville, Jacques Bellin, Rigobert Bonne, Jean Denis Janvier, Rizzi-Zannoni and others, hand-coloured in outline, several folding. Letterpress index leaf at end of vol. II. (Mainly marginal light staining and soiling, occasional creasing, a few short tears and small repairs, folding map of Italy strengthened on verso.) 20th-century tree calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels (extremities rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0308_000(santini_p_francois_publisher_atlas_universel_dresse_sur_les_meilleures050614).jpg?w=1)
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[SANTINI, P. François (c.1729-1793), publisher]. Atlas Universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes. Venice: par P. Santini, chez Remondini, 1784. 2 volumes, 2° (523 x 382mm). Engraved allegorical title, engraved index in each volume, and 136 double-page maps after Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, J.B.B. d'Anville, Jacques Bellin, Rigobert Bonne, Jean Denis Janvier, Rizzi-Zannoni and others, hand-coloured in outline, several folding. Letterpress index leaf at end of vol. II. (Mainly marginal light staining and soiling, occasional creasing, a few short tears and small repairs, folding map of Italy strengthened on verso.) 20th-century tree calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels (extremities rubbed).
Remondini’s reprint of Santini’s ambitious world atlas. Although its principal sources are the great French mapmakers of the mid 18th century, its immediate publishing origins show themselves in the 27 maps of Italy and its regions at the start of volume II. The 1784 map of the Russian discoveries on the west coast of America is of particular interest, as is the more extensive double-page map of the new discoveries in the North Pacific. Santini sold the copperplates of his Atlas Universel to Giuseppe Remondini in 1781. NMM III, 277; Nordenskiöld 276; Phillips, Atlases 647.
Remondini’s reprint of Santini’s ambitious world atlas. Although its principal sources are the great French mapmakers of the mid 18th century, its immediate publishing origins show themselves in the 27 maps of Italy and its regions at the start of volume II. The 1784 map of the Russian discoveries on the west coast of America is of particular interest, as is the more extensive double-page map of the new discoveries in the North Pacific. Santini sold the copperplates of his Atlas Universel to Giuseppe Remondini in 1781. NMM III, 277; Nordenskiöld 276; Phillips, Atlases 647.
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