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CORONELLI, Father Vincenzo, Venice & Paris, 1698] A magnificent pair of 42½-inch (110cm.) diameter library globes, each made up of two sets of twelve original proof gores and two ( later ) polar calottes, with ( later ) horizon papers, the celestial being the convex gores, laid on modern plaster spheres and extremely finely hand-coloured, with modern mountings, signed on the meridian G & T [Greaves & Thomas] LONDON , both with the numerous decorative cartouches left blank, and further differing from the final versions in several ways ( see below ), the terrestrial with the equatorial, tropic and polar circles and PRIMO MERIDIANO graduated in degrees, this latter running through Iceland, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing symbols and names for the houses of the Zodiac, the Pacific Ocean with two wind roses with the names of thirty-two winds in Italian, the oceans with descriptive notes, some within decorative cartouches, with historical and geographical information, numerous decorative depictions of ships and boats and marine flora and fauna, the tracks of the Viaggio di Giacomo le Maire negl'anno 1616 é 1617, col qual'há scoper un nuouo passagiò dal Mare del Sud al Mare del Nort nicin'allo Stretto di Magaglianes in 2.anni, è 18.Giorni , and of the Viaggio fatto da Brest à Siam l'anno 1685, col Vascello da Guerra, detto l'Oiseau, di S.M. Chriftianissima marked at close intervals with daily positions, with further notes and dates, further cartouches in the southern Indian Ocean and in the southern Pacific Ocean, various sandbanks also shown, including IL GRAN BANCO off Nova Scotia, with explanatory note, the North Pole labelled POLO SETTENTRIONALE, ò BOREALE, ET ARTICO with extensive notes, the Antarctic circle labelled LA TERRA MAGELLANICA AUSTRALI, ò MERIDIONALE, et INCOGNITA, detta dalli Spagnuoli with large decorative cartouche left blank and one third of the projected coastline shown and various further notes, New Zealand with partial coastline shown and a note reading Scoperta dagli Medeni l'anno 1654 , Tasmania with southern coastline shown and labelled TERRA D'ANTONIO DIEMENS Scoperta li 24.novembre del 1642. da Abel Tazman Holland , Madagascar labelled I DI MADAGASCAR, ò DI MADAGASE, Inc:, MEMOUTHIAS Ptol. and detta dalli Francesi, ISLE DAUPHIN Scoperta dalli Portughesi, l'anno 1506 , the Maldives with ocean currents shown, various other islands with notes, the continents with numerous geographical and historical notes and details such as towns and cities, some marked to denote abbeys or cathedrals, national boundaries shown in dotted outline, rivers marked, mountains shown in pictorial relief, forests and jungles shown by groups of green trees, China showing the Great Wall, labelled Muraglia della China longa 300 leghe alta 30 Cubiti larga 12. , all land masses save Europe with numerous depictions of inhabitants, habitations and wildlife, Africa with large decorative cartouche entitled DEL FIOME NILO engraved by P. Coronelli , the Caspian Sea, shown mis-shapen, with note reading MARE CASPIO GUALENSKOI da Mosc. CULZUM DEGHIZ, et GHILAN DEGHIZ da Jure TEBERISTAN, ò CHOUAREZAN, et MAZABDERAN da Persiani , the North Pacific with partly projected coastline of a landmass labelled TERRE DE IESSO, ò IECO, YEDCO, ESSO, et SESSO Scoperta dagli Hollandesi, l'anno 1643 and a note entitled Della Nuoua Albione , North America with no north-west coastline, a large decorative descriptive cartouche near the North Polar circle entitled DELLO STRETTO D'ANIAN , California shown as an island with descriptive cartouche to the south-west, Australia with no eastern coastline, shown joined to New Guinea, and with various notes; the celestial with convex gores, the cartouches similarly left blank, the equatorial, tropic and polar circles, equinoctial and solstitial colures all graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in degrees, the constellations depicted by superlative engravings of mythical beasts, figures and objects and left