Beschreibung:

CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718). Isolario, descrittione di tutte l'isole. Coll'osservationi degli scogli sirti, scaghi, e secche del globo terracqueo. Tomo II dell' Atlante Veneto [Atlante Veneto part II]. Venice: the author, 1696-97. 2 volumes, large 2° (490 x 350mm). Letterpress dedications to Leopold I and Ferdinand Charles Duke of Mantua. Engraved titles in red and black, decorative engraved half-titles, allegorical frontispieces, engraved arms of William III, Prince of Orange, preceding section on Great Britain in 2nd volume, 91 engraved maps, gores and plates (comprising 63 maps, 59 double-page, 12 gores, 16 plates, portraits, plans and views, 4 double-page, and including a folding bird's-eye view of Venice), 157 smaller engraved maps, views and portraits in the text. (View of Venice shaved at lower margin just affecting image area, some general old dampstaining and spotting, marginal and unobtrusive in the main.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard (some light discolouration). Provenance : Baron Horace de Landau (bookplate ). The second part of the Atlante Veneto , in two volumes; the first volume covers the Mediterranean, Italy and the Adriatic; the second, Britain and Europe, Africa, Japan and Asia, and the West Indies. The Atlante Veneto is considered one of Coronelli's most ambitious undertakings, the title found in the first part proclaiming the author's intention as nothing short of 'la discrittione geografica, storica, sacra, profana, e politica, degl'imperii, regni, provincie, e stati dell'universo.' Phillips I, 521.; Cremonini 47, part I; Armao p. 96 and no 49. (2)