Antique map of the northeastern part of Italy by Christoph Weigel. Shows Veneto, the province of Mantua, Emilia-Romagna, with the northern part of the Adriatic Sea the Gulf of Venice (Golfo di Venezia) and Istria in the east. From Atlas Manualis Scolasticus et Itinerarius complectens Novae Geographiae Tabulas by Christoph Weigel e Johann David Köhler published in Nuremberg in 1718 at Johann Ernst Adelbulner. Decorated with a nice title cartouche with the Council of Ten (one of the major governing bodies of the Republic of Venice from 1310 to 1797).
Christoph Weigel was an engraver and publisher active in Nuremberg in the early 1700s. During his lifetime he published 70 books and series of engravings, including the atlas Descriptio Orbis Antique in XLIV tabulis published in 1720. For his geographical works and maps, he worked closely together with the highly successful Nuremberg cartographer Johann Baptist Homann. His younger brother, Johann Christoph Weigel (1661-1726) also known as Christoph Weigel the Younger, worked as well as an engraver and publisher in Nuremberg. Weigel’s company was continued by his wife when he died in 1725.
