CORONELLI LEVANTO Prima Parte dello Specchio de Mare

Sale 2183 - Lot 6

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Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000

CORONELLI / LEVANTO. Prima Parte dello Specchio de Mare. 4 engraved frontispieces, including one double-page, engraved portrait of Coronelli, 25 beautiful maritime charts (24 of them double-page). Folio, 485x350 mm, contemporary speckled sheep, extremities worn; scant minor worming on pastedowns, several leaves partially browned, maps very slightly browned along folds, otherwise a lovely copy; inked armorial stamp of a Russian peer on initial frontispiece, very small inked monogram stamps on maps, generally in the right margin. Venice, 1698

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Maps printed from plates obtained from Francesco Levanto, who published the work initially in 1664. Coronelli has added the engraved preliminary matter and the portrait bound in terminally. The maritime charts deal exclusively with the area of the north coast of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar eastward to the Holy Land. The text is full of illustrations of local topography plus detailed sailing instructions. NUC locating only a defective copy of this classic Coronelli atlas.