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CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718). Epitome cosmografica o Compendiosa introduttione all'astronomia, geografia, e idrografia, per l'uso, dilucidatione, e fabbrica delle sfere, globi, planisferj, astrolabj, e tavole geografiche. Cologne [but Venice]: Andrea Poletti, 1693.
CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718). Epitome cosmografica o Compendiosa introduttione all'astronomia, geografia, e idrografia, per l'uso, dilucidatione, e fabbrica delle sfere, globi, planisferj, astrolabj, e tavole geografiche. Cologne [but Venice]: Andrea Poletti, 1693. 8° (187 x 122mm). Engraved frontispiece, 33 (of 37) engraved plates only, of which 28 (of 31) double-page, one with two volvelles, and 5 (of 6) folding circular celestial and terrestrial charts. (Lacks 4 plates and with only 40 of 44 unnumbered preliminary pages, laminated repairs to margins of title and some other preliminaries, small repairs to folding plates.) Modern brown leather, uncut. FIRST EDITION, gathering the lectures which Coronelli gave before the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, the first geographical society, which he himself had founded in Venice in 1684. His work is divided into three books: the first on astronomy and the points of the compass, the second on geography and natural phenomena, and the last on globes, armillary spheres and astrolabes. SBN/It gives two variant paginations, A and B, this copy conforming with B. BL/STC 17th-century Italian I, p.262; Houzeau and Lancaster 8006; Riccardi I, 374.