Zatta World

Antonio Zatta.
Il Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale del Globo.
Venice, 1774. 285 x 390mm. Original colour. Faint damp staining in the bottom margin, not affecting map.
£890
Double-hemisphere world map, with allegorical figures of the Four Continents in the corners. Published just after the news of Cook's first circumnavigation was published, his route is marked but New Zealand remains unrecognisable yet shown correctly as two main islands. ZATT0051