CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718). Planisfero del Mondo Nuovo. Venice, ca 1691.
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CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718). Planisfero del Mondo Nuovo. Venice, ca 1691.
Engraved map of the Western Hemisphere with hand-coloring in wash and outline, visible area 19 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (495 x 698 mm). Framed (unexamined out of frame). Borders with symbols of constellations, and with bands of statistics surrounding the map providing latitudes to the second and other measurements, tables listing estimates of various geographic measurements.
Coronelli's map, included in his atlas Atlante Veneto, first issued in 1691 and again in 1695, follows the globes issued by him in 1588. The map incorporates many 17th-century cartographic assumptions about the Americas, depicting California as an island and following the La Salle model of the Mississippi River, emptying into the Gulf in the vicinity of Galveston Bay. McLaughlin 105; Shirley 548 (" a worthwhile addition to any collection").
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