Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 201

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
CORONELLI, VINCENZO MARIA. An Historical and Geographical Account of the Morea, Negropont, and the Maritime Places, as far as Thessalonica. 42 double-page plates comprising map of the Peloponnese, 22 views, 17 plans, and 2 depictions of Ottoman battle standard. [8], 230, [1] pages, including ad leaf. Small 8vo, 152x91 mm, contemporary sheep, joints rubbed, lettering piece off, front hinge reinforced, rear endpapers renewed; title soiled, scattered foxing and stains generally not affecting engraved matter apart from marginal stains on last plate, clean tear in plan facing page 179. Later signatures of W. Tiller and Capt. May, both of the 5th Fusiliers, and James Worsley, Esq., of the XI Regiment. London: Matth. Gillyflower and W. Canning, 1687

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first edition in english of an illustrated account of territories in Greece then recently reconquered from the Ottoman Empire by the Venetian Republic, originally published the same year before in Italian. Wing C6342.