Original antique map from the 'Modern Atlas of the Terrestrial Globe' by several authors. Engraved by Lattre. First Published 1771. This edition c. 1782.
Giovanni Antonio Bartolomeo Rizzi Zannoni was one of the leading cartographers of the late 18th century, as well as being an astronomer, surveyor and mathematician. Born in Padua, he worked in Venice and was engaged by the governments of Austria and France to produce maps. Rizzi Zannoni was the first to execute the triangulation of Poland, assisting in the French and English border survey of American in 1757, and serving as the hydrographer of the Dépot de Marine. He was also a member of the Cosmographic Society of Göttingen, a town in Saxony, Germany, home to the University of Göttingen. Rizzi Zannoni is known for his world atlas, the French edition of which was published in 1762 as Atlas Moderne by Lattré in Bordeaux.
