Author: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli
Publisher: published c1690 in Venice.
Year: 1690
Size: 61 x 45 cm
Reference: Sweet / Yeo, J. #73; Tibbetts, G.R. #155; Tooley, R.V. (Australia) #351, pl.XXII; Clancy Terra Australis map 6.22.
Asia Divisa nelle sue Parti secondo lo stato presente [Asia Divided into its Parts According to the Present State]
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Description
hand-coloured copper engraving.
Very decorative map from the “Atlante Veneto”, published c1690 in Venice. Eastern sheet of Coronelli’s splendid Asia map, dedicated to the Jesuit missionaries’ work in China and other places in Asia, centered on the Philippines, China (Great Wall is visible), Japan and Korea, showing the latest discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and with Tartary to Australia which is connected to New Guinea. Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 – 1718) was a Franciscan Priest in Venice, one of the most celebrated cartographers of the 17th Century, known for designing & producing large globes for King Louis XVI.
Condition
with folds as issued. RARE in very good condition.
