[CELESTIAL MAP] ZATTA, ANTONIO. Posizione Diversa Degli Abitanti Della Terra.
Venice: Presso Antonio Zatta, 1779. Hand colored engraved map. Neatlines 11 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (30 x 39 cm); framed. A fresh example with some light creases, not examined outside of the frame.
Zatta's map, published in his atlas the Atlante Novissimo, contains 6 different represpentations of the earth. These illustrate the earth's longitude, latidude, antipodes, climate zones, and the sun's relation to objects on its surface based on their geographic locations. The map also depicts the sun, the moon and the planets, and gives the diameter of each celestial body.

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