Very decorative prospect view of Athens showing the major buildings and places of interest. From Corso Geografico Universale by Coronelli published in Venice in 1690. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli is widely recognised as one of Italy’s most famous and greatest cartographers. He received an ecclesiastical education at the convent of the Minor Conventuals and also studied theology in Rome. However, his interests in geography and cartography were awoken early in his ecclesiastical career and never suppressed. He made very famous globes (including an impressive very large-scale pair for Louis XIV) and some of the most interesting and decorative atlases of all 17th century like Atlante Veneto, Isolario, Corso Geografico Universale, Libro dei Globi and also some pocket books about towns and islands. These important works are all finely engraved in his unique style with a high quantity of toponymic and historical information. In 1680 Coronelli also founded the oldest surviving geographical society “The Argonauts Academy”.
Antica e Moderna Citta d’Atene dedicata dal P. Coronelli
- Year: 1690
- Dimension: 610 x 458 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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Well engraved view of the town of Corfu with its harbour and the citadel. Below with a text about the history of the town in Latin and German. Published in Augsburg by Leopold in 1725. Rare first edition with the privilege but before numbers.
- Year: 1725
- Dimension: 300 x 200 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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Nice map of northern Greece with the southern parts of present day Macedonia and Albania. Includes Athens. Strapwork title cartouche in the lower left corner. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius with german text on verso. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hon
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 205 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Out of stockBeautiful seven little maps on one sheet: A large map of Crete, with six smaller maps across the top showing the Ionian Islands of Kerkira (Corfu), Zakinthos (Zante), Milos, Naxos, Santorini and Scarpanto. The map of Crete names many places, rivers and mountain ranges. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius with german text on verso. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”.
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 198 x 140 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Nautical chart from J. Roux’s “Carte de la Mer Mediterranee en douze feuilles? published in Marsile in 1764. Sanderson, The Sea Chart, p. 91. Rare. [cod.1193/15]
- Year: 1764
- Dimension: 800 x 545 mm
- Place of publication: Marsiglia
