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Author Name: Coronelli, Vincenzo M[aria].
Title: Map. Canada Orientale Nell’ America Settentrionale from Atlante Veneto.
Seller ID: 1300
Venice, 1691- 96. Image (46cm x 62cm) in fine bespoke gilt frame (66cm x 80cm). Depicts, outlined and in fine colour, the regions of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and further east in the Atlantic, the Grand Banks. The colourful and flamboyant engraved cartouche features a somewhat humanoid octopus and two handsome dolphins framed with laurels (‘Canada/ Orientale Nell’/ America Settentrionale/ descrita/ dal P. Mro. Coronelli M. C. Cosmografo/ della Seren Republica di Venetia/ dedicata/ Alli Mto. Reverendi Padri/ Li P.P. Minori Conventuali/ del Monestero insigne/ di S.Francesco/ di Bologne’), also framed in laurels the colourful legend. Famous first as a maker of globes-- Coronelli (1650- 1718) built a pair of ‘superbly engraved globe[s] five feet in diameter’ for the duke of Parma (1678), which globes so impressed Louis XIV that the Sun King commissioned Coronelli to construct a ‘pair of gigantic globes... over twelve feet in diameter and weighing two tons each’ (Geographicus), large enough, also, to house a family of peasants. Appointed Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice, Coronelli produced the Atlante Veneto ‘which was intended as a continuation of the Blaeu Atlas Major... [a] vast work comprised of some thirteen volumes.... The maps from the Atlante Veneto are engraved in characteristic... bold style, using the latest geographical information.... Many of the more important maps were engraved on two sheets’ [as here] to permit presentation of greater detail (Swaen). A bright, clean copy of this classic but uncommon map in a suitably attractive frame. Ex Ruddell collection (November 2008). See, e.g., Kershaw, Karpinski.
Price =
2500.00 USD
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