Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria)
Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria)
Scotia Parte Settentrionale; Scotia Parte Meridionale, the pair of Northern and Southern Scotland, showing towns, mountains, rivers, lakes, islands, bays, churches and other features, each with a large armorial cartouche containing dedication to the theologist Tommaso Maria Peire, the northern sheet including an inset list of the Scottish counties displayed in a ‘curtain’ cartouche, engraved maps, uncoloured, central vertical fold, each c.455 x 625 mm, Italian text on verso, double column, one woodcut foliated initial, little marking, minor surface dirt, slight very minor staining, Venice, [c.1690] (2)
***Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was among the most important and influential map makers of the late 17th Century. After starting his career in Venice, he was invited by Louis XIV to Paris to construct a monumental set of globes, which are among the most famous cartographic works of the 17th Century. During his time in Paris, he collaborated extensively with JB Nolin, which provided him with access to the best available French maps, at a time when France was asserting its pre-eminence in the field of map making.
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Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria)
Scotia Parte Settentrionale; Scotia Parte Meridionale, the pair of Northern and Southern Scotland, showing towns, mountains, rivers, lakes, islands, bays, churches and other features, each with a large armorial cartouche containing dedication to the theologist Tommaso Maria Peire, the northern sheet including an inset list of the Scottish counties displayed in a ‘curtain’ cartouche, engraved maps, uncoloured, central vertical fold, each c.455 x 625 mm, Italian text on verso, double column, one woodcut foliated initial, little marking, minor surface dirt, slight very minor staining, Venice, [c.1690] (2)
***Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was among the most important and influential map makers of the late 17th Century. After starting his career in Venice, he was invited by Louis XIV to Paris to construct a monumental set of globes, which are among the most famous cartographic works of the 17th Century. During his time in Paris, he collaborated extensively with JB Nolin, which provided him with access to the best available French maps, at a time when France was asserting its pre-eminence in the field of map making.
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