Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
CORONELLI, VINCENZO. Memorie Istoriografiche della Morea, Negroponte e Littorali sin' a' Salonicchi. 43 folding engravings comprising allegory of Venice triumphant, map of the Peloponnese, 39 views and plans, and 2 depictions of Ottoman battle standard. [10], 186, [2] pages, including engraved additional title. 8vo, 167x103 mm, 19th-century 1/4 sheep, backstrip lacking; dark stain in outer margin of opening leaves also affecting the allegorical plate, mostly light marginal dampstaining elsewhere in text, crude repair in blank lower outer corner of B8, most plates reinforced on verso and cropped in outer margin, outer half missing from plates of Modone facing page 44 and Porto di Cerigo facing page 142, plate of Mistra facing page 72 torn and repaired with small piece missing from blank lower margin. Milan: Giulio Francesco Zanetti, 1687

Additional Details

Illustrated account of territories in Greece recently reconquered from the Ottoman Empire by the Venetian Republic, first published in 1686. This copy lacks one engraving (Porto Lione, to face page 152), but has another (Golfo d'Engia, facing page 147) not called for in the plate list.