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Vincenzo Coronelli
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Certificate of Authentication


This is to certify that the item illustrated and described below is a genuine antique
map, print or book that was first produced and published in 1696, today 328 years ago.
December 3, 2024

Dr Leendert Helmink, Ph.D.
Cartographer(s)

Vincenzo Coronelli

First Published

Venice, 1696

This edition

1696

Size

22.6 x 27.0 cms

Technique

Copper engraving

Stock number

18735

Condition

mint

Antique map of Australia by Vincenzo Coronelli
Antique map of Australia by Vincenzo Coronelli

Description

Very decorative globe gore dedicated to Australia.

The gore is used as frontispiece for Schilder's seminal reference work "Australia Unveiled".



Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718)


Ordained as a Franciscan priest, Coronelli spent of his life in Venice, becoming a noted theologian an being appointed, in 1699, Father General of his order. By that time he was already famous as a mathematician cartographer and globe maker and his influence led to a revival of interest in these subjects in Italy at the end of the seventeenth century. He was certainly the greatest cartographer of his time there and became Cosmographer to the Venetian Republic, taught geography in the University and, in 1680, founded the first geographical society, the Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti.

In his lifetime he compiled and engraved over 500 maps including a large 2-volume work, the Atlante Veneto, somewhat reminiscent of Robert Dudley's Dell' Arcano del Mare; he is equally well known for his construction of very large terrestrial and celestial globes even finer than those of Blaeu, including one, 15 feet in diameter, made for Louis XIV of France.

(Moreland and Bannister)