CORONELLI, Vicenzo Maria (1650-1718). An album containing a full suite of 25 engraved charts from the Prima parte dello Specchio del Mare [Venice: 1698]. One of the earliest Italian printed nautical atlases , no other part ever appearing. The charts were printed from plates obtained from Francesco Maria Levanto, who first published the work in Genoa, 1664. They follow the north coast of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar eastward to the Levant (the descriptive text is lacking); Coronelli’s contribution amounted only to the 4? introductory plates and the portrait usually bound at the end. This album has 6 plates bound in, a frontispiece showing a naval battle with the manuscript title ‘Stato Ecclesiastico’ filling a blank cartouche, two portraits of Coronelli, one with the arms of Innocent XII at the head, the other including three putti and books by him, an allegorical plate of ‘Gli Argonauti’ (the Academy of the Argonauts), a double-page plate of Venice triumphant, and a plate allegorizing Britannia with the royal arms. Confusingly the charts are also preceded by the cut-down letterpress title to Corso geografico [ universale ], published at Venice in 1692-93. This is not the source of the charts, though it suggests that some preliminary plates in the album may derive from this work rather than the Specchio . Shirley BL II, M.Lev-1c (calling for 28 rather than 25 charts); cf. Koeman IV, p.402 Lev 1 and NMM III(1) 42 (1664 edition). Folio (489 x 351mm). 25 engraved charts by Coronelli numbered 1-25, all but one double-page, bound without title or text, preceded by 6 engraved plates, one double-page, by Coronelli, a one-page letterpress dedication to the Pope, and a cut down title-page to Coronelli’s Corso geografico [ universale ]. Old brown marbled boards (rebacked in roan, endpapers renewed).
CORONELLI, Vicenzo Maria (1650-1718). An album containing a full suite of 25 engraved charts from the Prima parte dello Specchio del Mare [Venice: 1698]. One of the earliest Italian printed nautical atlases , no other part ever appearing. The charts were printed from plates obtained from Francesco Maria Levanto, who first published the work in Genoa, 1664. They follow the north coast of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar eastward to the Levant (the descriptive text is lacking); Coronelli’s contribution amounted only to the 4? introductory plates and the portrait usually bound at the end. This album has 6 plates bound in, a frontispiece showing a naval battle with the manuscript title ‘Stato Ecclesiastico’ filling a blank cartouche, two portraits of Coronelli, one with the arms of Innocent XII at the head, the other including three putti and books by him, an allegorical plate of ‘Gli Argonauti’ (the Academy of the Argonauts), a double-page plate of Venice triumphant, and a plate allegorizing Britannia with the royal arms. Confusingly the charts are also preceded by the cut-down letterpress title to Corso geografico [ universale ], published at Venice in 1692-93. This is not the source of the charts, though it suggests that some preliminary plates in the album may derive from this work rather than the Specchio . Shirley BL II, M.Lev-1c (calling for 28 rather than 25 charts); cf. Koeman IV, p.402 Lev 1 and NMM III(1) 42 (1664 edition). Folio (489 x 351mm). 25 engraved charts by Coronelli numbered 1-25, all but one double-page, bound without title or text, preceded by 6 engraved plates, one double-page, by Coronelli, a one-page letterpress dedication to the Pope, and a cut down title-page to Coronelli’s Corso geografico [ universale ]. Old brown marbled boards (rebacked in roan, endpapers renewed).
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