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A magnificent complete set of Coronelli’s globe gores, including a set of counterproof images for a 42 inch concave celestial globe

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Libro dei Globi.

Globi del P. Coronelli [manuscript title within engraved border].

CORONELLI, Vincenzo
Venice,
[Girolamo Albrizzi for Coronelli,
c.1697-1701].
Folio (490 by 340mm) 160ff., two argonauti plates, engraved title with title in manuscript, argonauti plate, double-page engraved dedication to Louis XIV, two plates of globe furniture, and 152 engraved plates of terrestrial and celestial globe gores, equatorial rings, and globes (6 folding, 21 composed of two joined half-sheets), engraved portrait of Coronelli, contemporary speckled calf rebacked.
487 by 346mm. (19.25 by 13.5 inches).
1629

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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), a Franciscan monk, was the official cosmographer of the Venetian Republic and founder of the first modern geographical society: 'Gli Argonauti'. He earned his great reputation by the exactitude and the beauty of his maps and globes. In his celestial globes, he designed 83 constellations and a catalogue of 1902 stars. Of his terrestrial globes, Stevenson says that he omitted nothing of interest to geographers, navigators and explorers:

bibliography:

bibliography:

Wallis, H., preface to Coronelli 'Libro dei Globi', pp.xx-xxi; Armao 'Vincenzo Coronelli', nos. 59 & 60, and p.237; Stevenson, 'Terrestial and Celestial Globes' II, pp. 98-120; Wallis, H., Coronelli Libro dei Globi, Der Globusfreund Nr. 18/20, May 1970, pp. 390-394.