Atlante Novissimo, che contiene tutte le parti del mondo

Two parts in one small folio (380 x 265 mm). Contemporary vellum, spine with raised bands, title and volume numbering lettered in gilt to spine, red speckled edges (a few small wormholes to spine-ends, some stains on covers, some small wear to joints) V.1 : Frontispiece, title engraved in black and red, [6], 59 pp, 34 double-page engraved maps V.2 : Frontispiece, title engraved in black and red, [6], 79 pp, 44 double-page engraved maps.

Two engraved-titles (Atlante novissimo del Sigr Guglielmo De L'Isle), two letterpress title-pages printed in red and black, 78 double-page engraved maps with outline colours, some partly with wash colour mounted on guards, including 6 maps of America and a world map.

A fine and attractive atlas published in Venice in 1740 (volume 1) and 1750 (volume 2) by Giambattista Albrizzi, gathering Guillaume Delisle's maps from his Atlas de Geographie (Paris, 1700-1718 and later issues) and Isaac Tirion's maps from his Nieuwe Hand-Atlas (Amsterdam, ca 1740).

Small defects including small stains to p. 51, maps [24] (vol. 1) and [25] (vol. 2), separation to the lower centrefold to maps 1 and 17 (vol. 1) and maps [7], [38] and [39] (vol. 2), small wormhole in the margin at the centrefold of map [22] with slight damage to the bottom of the map).

Some old annotations in ink to the dedication leaves of volume 2.