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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 413727, member: 56"]Here's the Biblioteque nationale de France entry. They have no publisher info, but date theirs (without index) to 1779.</p><p><a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8442371w" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8442371w" rel="nofollow">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8442371w</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think it's a problem with maps: the plates moved around a lot. If someone was producing an atlas, they shopped around for what plates were available rather than commissioning new work. You would have to find the original appearance of the map to hope to get the information you want, and even then there's a good chance the info simply isn't there.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found the BnF info by searching the title: Prima urbes inter divum domus aurea Roma.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the title translates as "First among cities, the home of gods, golden Rome"</p><p><br /></p><p>The map may have a connection to a Roman poet named Ausonius (4th C) who published a book called Ordo Urbium Nobilium (The order of Noble Cities). I don't know if a search for 18th C editions of that would be productive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 413727, member: 56"]Here's the Biblioteque nationale de France entry. They have no publisher info, but date theirs (without index) to 1779. [URL]https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8442371w[/URL] I think it's a problem with maps: the plates moved around a lot. If someone was producing an atlas, they shopped around for what plates were available rather than commissioning new work. You would have to find the original appearance of the map to hope to get the information you want, and even then there's a good chance the info simply isn't there. I found the BnF info by searching the title: Prima urbes inter divum domus aurea Roma. I think the title translates as "First among cities, the home of gods, golden Rome" The map may have a connection to a Roman poet named Ausonius (4th C) who published a book called Ordo Urbium Nobilium (The order of Noble Cities). I don't know if a search for 18th C editions of that would be productive.[/QUOTE]
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