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Auction 188, Lot 162

"Parte Orientale della Florida, della Giorgia, e Carolina Meridionale", Zatta, Antonio

Subject: Colonial Southeastern United States

Period: 1778 (circa)

Publication: Atlante Novissimo

Color: Hand Color

Size:
16.7 x 12.5 inches
42.4 x 31.8 cm
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This detailed map covers the coastline from Wilmington and Cape Fear to St. Augustine and Cape Canaveral. The map depicts cities, town, Indian villages, forts and roads and is especially noteworthy for naming early counties in South Carolina. An Italian notation concerning the British attack on Charleston in 1776 and a key to the map appears in the Atlantic. At this time Florida was still British, having been acquired from Spain in 1763. The map is sheet XI from Zatta's Le Colonie Unite dell' America Settentrle, which is often referred to as the Italian edition of John Mitchell's map, on which it is based. Zatta's maps retain Mitchell's scale, but being smaller are more legible. Zatta also included updated legends (in Italian) with notations concerning the Revolutionary War. Each sheet stands on its own and has full borders.

References: Portinaro & Knirsch #153; Sellers and Van Ee #163; Shirley (BL Atlases) T.ZAT-1, Vol 4 #38.

Condition: B+

Contemporary outline color on a sheet with a three crescent moons watermark. There is some minor toning, light extraneous creasing, and a light dampstain in the upper left corner of the sheet. Several short edge tears confined to the blank margins have been closed on verso with archival tape.

Estimate: $300 - $375

Sold for: $190

Closed on 6/22/2022

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