Thursday 24 February 2011

Antique Maps of Surrey for Sale



This 18th century map of Surrey by Antonio Zatta is hand coloured and very detailed.

Engraved by Pitteri and drawn by Zuliani it was published in 1779 by Antonio Zatta in Atlante Novissimo.

Full details: Antique map of Surrey by Zatta





Antonio Zatta:

A Venitian cartographer who completed his best known publication Atlante Novissimo by 1785, this comprised of 218 maps including provincial maps of Europe and although he never produced an atlas of British county maps it did include Essex, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey as well as regions of Ireland and Scotland.

He also produced decorative maps after Captain Cook (Austrailia and New Zealand) and a twelve sheet sectional version of Mitchell's large-scale map of the USA, 1755. A characteristic of Zatta's maps are the decorative title cartouches. Also produced Nuovo atlante in 1799. Other cartographers work which he interpreted include Robert de Vaugondy and Bellin.

Other antique maps of Surrey