FILETI, Giovanni. Carta Piana del mare Mediterraneo corretta,e rettificata sotto i felicissimi auspici de Ferdinando IV, Re delle Due Sicilie..per ordine del Sigr Conte di Thurn e Ualsassina. Naples 1802. 2° (550 x 370mm). Engraved chart of the Mediterranean on 11 double-page sheets by Carmelus Argento after Fileti, 7 folding. (Some light staining, discolouration along several folds, a few folds cleanly torn.) Contemporary half sheep, mottled paper covered boards (slightly worn), silk ties. A very unusual Neapolitan atlas of Mediterranean charts based on Joseph Roux's Survey of 1764 (first published in Marseilles and updated as late as the 1790s). Roux's charts have been modified by Giovanni Fileti, a pilot in the navy, under the direction of the Count of Thurn and Ualsassina, Commander of the navy of Naples and Sicily. The charts provide detailed surveys of all the coastlines and include inset plans of Bonafacio and its vicinity and Trieste. Several areas of the charts are left blank suggesting that the task was not fully completed by Fileti. This series of charts was issued at an interesting time during Naples' turbulent history; in 1802 after the peace of Amiens the court had returned to Naples, and this publication may represent an attempt by the Navy to gain favour with Ferdinand, at a time when the English and Franco-Spanish fleets dominated the Mediterranean.
FILETI, Giovanni. Carta Piana del mare Mediterraneo corretta,e rettificata sotto i felicissimi auspici de Ferdinando IV, Re delle Due Sicilie..per ordine del Sigr Conte di Thurn e Ualsassina. Naples 1802. 2° (550 x 370mm). Engraved chart of the Mediterranean on 11 double-page sheets by Carmelus Argento after Fileti, 7 folding. (Some light staining, discolouration along several folds, a few folds cleanly torn.) Contemporary half sheep, mottled paper covered boards (slightly worn), silk ties. A very unusual Neapolitan atlas of Mediterranean charts based on Joseph Roux's Survey of 1764 (first published in Marseilles and updated as late as the 1790s). Roux's charts have been modified by Giovanni Fileti, a pilot in the navy, under the direction of the Count of Thurn and Ualsassina, Commander of the navy of Naples and Sicily. The charts provide detailed surveys of all the coastlines and include inset plans of Bonafacio and its vicinity and Trieste. Several areas of the charts are left blank suggesting that the task was not fully completed by Fileti. This series of charts was issued at an interesting time during Naples' turbulent history; in 1802 after the peace of Amiens the court had returned to Naples, and this publication may represent an attempt by the Navy to gain favour with Ferdinand, at a time when the English and Franco-Spanish fleets dominated the Mediterranean.
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