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VINCENZO MARIA CORONELLI (1650-1718)
VINCENZO MARIA CORONELLI (1650-1718) Moscovia. Parte Occidentale [Parte Orientale]. [Venice: c.1696]. Large engraved map on 2 double-page engraved mapsheets (693 x 483 and 746 x 483mm). (Some light creasing and light dust soiling to margins, 2 closed short closed tears to upper margin of Parte Occidentale .) - Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. Moscovia Urbs Metropolis totius Russiae Albae . Cologne: 1617 Double-page perspective city plan after Augustin Hirschvogel (424 x 540mm). German text to verso of one page. (Short closed tear to lower margin, minor adhesive stain to centre fold.) -- Together with 10 other maps of Russian interest. A FINE COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN MAPS including Coronelli's magnificent two-sheet map of Russia and Hirschvogel's renowned birds-eye view of Moscow. The latter was published in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum , the first printed series of town plans. Koemann II, p.23 no. 54. (13)