1780 (ca.), Rizzi-Zannoni, Allemagne et Bohème / Germany and Bohemia, carte ancienne, antiquarian map.

Condition : good, slightly stained and browned at margins, minor defects at margins, faint traces of old horizontal folds at centre, map 1 at right lateral margin small tear at centre fold and faint trace of moisture.
Illustrator/geographer : Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni.
Format : two sheets in the format of 49 x 58 cm (54 x 77.5 cm).
Colour : hand-coloured (old), two decorative cartouches.
Publisher/engraver : Paris, Lattré.
Date : undated (ca. 1780).

A very beautiful detailed large-format map of Germany and Poland.

With a title cartouche in the form of an imperial eagle and a cartouche dedicated to J. D. Almoreau Tiepolo Ambassador Ordinary for the Serenissime Republique de Venise at the French Court.
Includes political and administrative boundaries, rivers, place names, canals, fortifications, forests, lakes, etc. Relief represented by images and hatching.

Born in Padua, Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni (1736 - 1814) began his career in the service of Homann's heirs in Germany in the 1750s, then moved to Paris from 1761 to 1776, before beginning a new phase in his life as a geographer in Italy, in Padua (1778) and Naples (1781). His international career illustrates the transnational dimension of science in the Age of Enlightenment and, through his methodological inflections, the transition from a cabinet geography to a field geography.