Cacciatore - Atlante Istorico - 1833-1835

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NEW HISTORICAL ATLAS – 3 VOLUMES WITH 144 PLATES, GEOGRAPHIC MAPS, COSTUMES AND MONUMENTS
Important Italian historical-geographic atlas from the first half of the nineteenth century, conceived as a broad illustrated synthesis of world universal history, geography, and civilizations. The work is particularly valued for its vast iconographic apparatus: folded maps, the costumes of peoples, views, monuments, religions, musical instruments, coins, medals, mythological and archaeological subjects. The copy comprises three volumes with a total of 144 plates.

MARKET VALUE
Indicative market value: €200–400. The presence of 144 plates, the large folded maps, and the three volumes in uniform binding support its commercial interest.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION AND CONDITION
Half-leather contemporaneous binding with marbled boards, titles, numbering and gilt embellishments to the spines. Bindings show wear and partial detachment; front board of the third volume practically detached. 144 plates in total, including folded geographic maps, civil and military costumes, monuments, landscapes, religious and mythological subjects, coins, medals, and archaeological materials. Missing plate No. CXIX from the third volume. Marginal copy, with several unruled quires. Spots and natural aging foxing scattered; some plates have creases, small marginal tears or other limited signs of time. In old books with a multigenerational history, some imperfections may be present and not always noted in the description. This listing contains AI Visualizations. The images are an integral part of the description.
Vol. I: [4], IV, 367, [1], 17.
Vol. II: 384, 19, [1].
Vol. III: 481, [3], 18.

FULL TITLE AND AUTHOR
Nuovo atlante istorico.
Florence, at Giuseppe Celli, 1833-1835.
Leonardo Cacciatore.

CONTEXT AND SIGNIFICANCE
The Nuovo atlante istorico belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of universal history atlases designed to combine text, geography and images in a single large educational repository. The work is thus not merely a cartographic atlas: it pairs political and geographical history with extensive visual documentation devoted to the material culture of peoples, their clothing, religions, arts, architectures and monuments. Particularly interesting is the encyclopedic character of the pictorial apparatus, which allows reading the work as a testimony to European perceptions of different civilizations in the early nineteenth century.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
Leonardo Cacciatore was an Italian historian and compiler active in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is remembered especially for the Nuovo atlante istorico, a broad didactic work in which he sought to integrate universal history, chronology, geography and iconographic documentation. The structure of the work reflects the encyclopedic nineteenth-century culture and the growing spread of atlases intended not only for scholars but also for a cultivated public and private libraries.

PRINTING HISTORY AND CIRCULATION
The Nuovo atlante istorico underwent numerous editions and reprints during the 1830s, indicating substantial editorial success. Florentine editions are documented between 1831 and 1833; a copy cataloged in an Italian historic library is described as the third edition, Florence, Battelli e figli and subsequently Typographia all’insegna di Dante, 1831-1833. The Biblioteca Digitale Ligure also preserves a digitized copy of the Nuovo atlante istorico dated 1831-1833, cataloged as a map-making printed work. The succession of closely spaced editions explains the market presence of sets consisting of volumes from different printings or editions, as in the present copy.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
ICCU / SBN – Cacciatore, Leonardo, Nuovo atlante istorico.
Biblioteca Digitale Ligure, Nuovo atlante istorico, Florence, 1831-1833, identifier GE38003553.
Biblioteca storica del Convitto G. Leopardi di Macerata, catalog of the historical collection: Cacciatore, Leonardo, Nuovo atlante istorico, 3rd edition, Florence, Battelli e figli / Typografia all’insegna di Dante, 1831-1833, 3 vols.
University of Illinois Library, digitized copy of the Nuovo atlante istorico, with detailed index of articles and plates.
The work is also documented in Italian public collections and in antiquarian catalogs related to the Florentine historical-cartographic production of the first half of the nineteenth century.