Isole di Tremiti

Striking map of the islands of Tremiti, located north of the Gargano Peninsula and west of Pescara in the Adriatic Sea, showing San Nicola, Capraia, and San Domino.
Embellished by galleons in the sea, compass rose and a nice cartouche listing the point of interest. Engraved with great care and high detail by Frate F.M.Ferri (this is one of the few Coronelli’s signed plate).
From the monumental “Isolario dell’Atlante Veneto” by Vincenzo Coronelli published in Venice in 1696.  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 high quantity of toponymic and historical information. In 1680 Coronelli also founded the oldest surviving geographical society “The Argonauts Accademy”.