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CORONELLI, Vincenzo (1650-1718 ). Atlante Veneto: Isolario descrittione geografico-historia . Venice: 1696-97.
CORONELLI, Vincenzo (1650-1718 ). Atlante Veneto: Isolario descrittione geografico-historia . Venice: 1696-97. 2 parts in 2 volumes, 2° (495 x 375mm). Each volume with half-titles and engraved architectural frontispieces, vol. II with engraved title of Gli Argonauti and title of Isolario printed in red and black, large folding plan of Venice, 9 portraits, numerous engraved views, charts, maps and costume plates of which 93 double-page (4 repeated) and 54 full-page, 22 full-page and 4 half-page gores, all engraved and mounted on guards. (Lacking engraved title of Gli Argonauti and title of Isolario in vol. I, removed stamps repaired on half-titles and endpapers, some light soiling, occasional waterstaining, heavier in second half of vol. I, occasional spotting, few maps shorter and others lightly browned, some tiny wormholes, vol. I with wormtrack in 5E1-5O1 affecting some maps, small marginal repair to 5T1, vol. II with wormtrack at top edge of 2A-2F affecting some maps, a full-page gore with some spotting.) Modern quarter calf with remains of old spine, 18th-century marbled boards, red edges, new endpapers (some scuffing and rubbing to extremities). Provenance : Collalto, Iacopo Massimiliano (1729-1811; bookplate) — Giordani (bookplate) —Municipio Venezia (removed stamps from the 1930s). AN EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY, INCLUDING NUMEROUS EXTRA ENGRAVED PLATES, TWENTY-TWO FULL-PAGE AND FOUR HALF-PAGE GORES. The Isolario is the second part of Coronelli’s Atlante Veneto : the first volume covers the Mediterranean, Italy and the Adriatic and the second Britain, Europe, Africa, Japan, Asia and the West Indies. This work is considered one of Coronelli's most ambitious undertakings, the title is proclaiming the author's intention to be nothing short of 'la discrittione geografica, storica, sacra, profana, e politica, degl'imperii, regni, provincie, e stati dell'universo’. Phillips I, 521; Shirley BL, T.COR-13a. For a full list of maps please visit www.christies.com. Vol. I Half-title Engraved architectural frontispiece « L’autore a chi legge » 1. Parte Occidentale del Mediterraneo. Double-page in text. MAP. 2. Parte Orientale del Mediterraneo. Double-page in text. MAP. 3. Italia parte occidentale. Double-page in text. MAP. 4. Golfo di Venezia. Double-page in text. MAP. 4. Italia parte orientale. Double-page in text. MAP. 5. Citta di Venetia. Folding double-page in text. MAP. (lightly cropped at top edge). 6. Portrait Giovanni Badoaro. Full-page in text. PORTRAIT. 7. Piazza di S. Marco di Venetia ; Vista dall’Orologio; Vista dalla Piazzetta. Full-page in text. 3 views in one. 8. Tavola idrografica della citta e contorni di Venetia… Full-page not in text. PLAN. 9. Palificata all’uso di Venetia ; Palificata… all’uso d’Ollanda. Full-page not in text. 2 views on one page. 10. Plana iconografica di Venetia. Full-page in text. PLAN. 11. Patria del Friuli. Double-page in text. MAP. 12. Forti di S. Pietro della Volta e di Malamocco ; Forte di Malamoco. Full-page not in text. 2 views in one engraving. 13. Citta di Venetia con l’Isole, che la circondano. Full-page not in text. MAP. 14. Portrait de Michael Bernardi. Full-page not in text. By Juster. PORTRAIT. 15. Chioza gia’detta Fossa Claudia. Full-page not in text. MAP. 16. Allegory F. Vincenzo Coronelli Cosmografo della Serenissima Repubblica. Full-page not in tex 17. Portrait du pape Innocent XII. Full-page not in text. PORTRAIT. (On verso of previous) 18. Citta, e cittadella di Ferrara. Full-page not in text. PLAN. 19. Territori di Ravenna… Parte meridionale. Double-page in text. MAP. 20. Isole di Tremiti. Parte del Golfo di Venetia. Double-page in text. MAP. 21. Citta e fortezza di Mantova. Full-page not in text. PLAN. 22. Parte Orientale di Sicilia. Double-page not in text. MAP. 23. Trinicria hoggidi Sicilia. Double-page in text. MAP. 24. Messina colle nuove fortificationi… Double-page in text. MAP. 25. La Costa di Barbaria. Double-page not in text. MAP. 26. Le Coste Maritime delle Isole d