Petri, Girolamo (sold)
Girolamo Petri (1806 - 1871) was an Italian lawyer and official in the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Onano (Viterbo, Lazio), Petri was the son of a Vatican civil servant. He studied law and went on to work as a lawyer for the Church until he was appointed to a position as a senior official in the State Secretariat (the curia body that oversaw the Church's international operations) in 1847. Due to his passion for cartography, Pope Pius IX bestowed upon Petri the task of creating an atlas of the Catholic world, L'Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico. Petri noted that, in making this atlas, he used only 'the most trusted sources', such as maps in the Vatican archives and from overseas dioceses.
An extremely rare Italian map of Catholic dioceses in China just after the end of the Second Opium War.
Vicariati Apostolici Nella China e Regni Adiacenti
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This is an 1858 Girolamo Petri map of Catholic dioceses in China. The map depicts the region from the Aral Sea to Japan and from Imperial Russia to Hainan, Laos, and Vietnam. Beautifully colored, each diocese is labeled and shaded differently to allow for easy differentiation. The seat of each diocese is highlighted by a red dot among these are Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, and Macau. Numerous rivers are illustrated, although only a handful are labeled, such as the Yangtze. Taiwan (Formosa) is also identified, as are Korea and Japan. The Gulf of Tonkin, the China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Sea of Japan are also noted. As this map dates from the end of the Second Opium War, it is highly possible that these dioceses had only recently been created. European missionaries had been banned from China for most of the preceding century. (more details)