Italy: Rome.
'Nuova Pianta di Roma data in Luce da Giambattista Nolli L'Anno M DCC XLVIII', made up in seventeen sheets as follows. (1) Title page and notice to readers (the latter includes a table of the fourteen wards of the city). (2-5) Numerical and alphabetical reference tables to streets, squares, principal buildings etc, ward by ward.
(6-17) Detailed town plan. Scale:
7.7 cm to 1,000 palmi Romani d'architettura.
Compass star.
Decorative border with emblems of the wards.
Below the map are scenes depicting classical figures, putti with cartographic instruments, and a papal coronation, probably that of Benedict XIV, to whom the plan is dedicated.
Engraved by Rocco and Stefano Pozzi, Pietro Campana and Carlo Nolli.