Zatta, Antonio
Parte Orientale del Canadá, Nouva Scozia Settentrionale, e Parte di Labrador
Fogl. III (Eastern Canada with Nova Scotia and the St Lawrence river)
- Published: Venice
- Published date: 1778
- Technique: Copper engraving / Original color.
- Issue date: 1778
- Type: map
- Category: Eastern Canada
- Size: 30.9 x 42,8 cm (12.25 x 16,75 inches).
- Stock number: 13029
- Condition: In very good to excellent condition, minor browned middle-fold (gluestaining), as often.
Article description
Copper engraving, in contemporary original color in outline. Published in Zatta's "Atlante Novissimo". This detailed and decorative antique map is depicting the area of the St. Lawrence river from Richelieu across Quebec towards the mouth of the St. Lawrence river into the North Atlantic with the southern coastline of Labrador. A highly detailed antique map by the famous late 18th century north-italian cartographer Antonio Zatta. With many names of towns and small villages, as well engraved names of mountains, rivers, lakes and also names of Indian tribes are shown on this old historic map. Along the coastline with details of engraved sandbanks, bays and small islands. This map was published in Antonio Zatta's "Atlante Novissimo" as sheet III of his twelve-sheet map of the United States.
Fogl. III (Eastern Canada with Nova Scotia and the St Lawrence river)