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CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718). Atlante Veneto, nel quale si contiene la descrittione... degl' Imperii, Regni, Provincie, e Stati dell' Universo . Venice: Girolamo Albrizzi, 1691. Volume 1 only. 2° (482 x 370mm). With the half-title, full-page engraved device with the imprint of the Argonauti, double-page allegorical frontispiece of Venice, title, engraved divisional title, engraved portrait of Morosini, one further engraved divisional title, and 46 double-page maps and plates, 4 full page plates of which one folding, and 16 full-page plates each with 2 subjects within engraved borders. (Title with the fore-margin repaired at an early date, a very few tears some of which with early repairs, faint mostly marginal dampstaining, short creased tear in the half-title and register margins, two double-page plates with a long tear along the fold, occasional light soiling.) Contemporary vellum, letter in manuscript up the spine (worn and soiled, spine ends chipped, joints starting). Provenance : 'N. 221' (manuscript shelf mark in an early hand).
CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718). Atlante Veneto, nel quale si contiene la descrittione... degl' Imperii, Regni, Provincie, e Stati dell' Universo . Venice: Girolamo Albrizzi, 1691. Volume 1 only. 2° (482 x 370mm). With the half-title, full-page engraved device with the imprint of the Argonauti, double-page allegorical frontispiece of Venice, title, engraved divisional title, engraved portrait of Morosini, one further engraved divisional title, and 46 double-page maps and plates, 4 full page plates of which one folding, and 16 full-page plates each with 2 subjects within engraved borders. (Title with the fore-margin repaired at an early date, a very few tears some of which with early repairs, faint mostly marginal dampstaining, short creased tear in the half-title and register margins, two double-page plates with a long tear along the fold, occasional light soiling.) Contemporary vellum, letter in manuscript up the spine (worn and soiled, spine ends chipped, joints starting). Provenance : 'N. 221' (manuscript shelf mark in an early hand). ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS BY ONE OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN MAPMAKERS OF THE 17TH-CENTURY. In 1684 Coronelli founded the first geographical society, Venice's Accademia degli Argonauti. His maps and plates were published under the aegis of the Argonauti, and gathered in the Atlante Veneto -- a work intended as a continuation of Blaeu's Atlas Maior . It is no mere collection of maps but 'a compendium of geographical, cosmographical, and scientific information... on contemporary Italian science and geography' ( The World Encompassed , p.195). The volume includes Coronelli's important map of North America, featuring one of the best renderings of California as an island. Leighly, California as an Island , 88; Phillips, Atlases , 521.