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CORONELLI, VINCENZO MARIA (1650-1718). America Settentrionale colle nuove scoperte fin all'Anno 1688. Venice, 1688 [i.e., 1696]. Engraved map on 2 sheets, each approx. 740 x 515 mm., showing North America with California as an island, the Caribbean, Central America and the northern coast of South America, large figural title cartouche with arms of the dedicatee Bishop F. Antonio Marsily, archdeacon of the cathedral of Bologna, two other decorative cartouches, the map embellished with vignettes of Native American life. The sheets separately matted and framed. Good condition.
Coronelli's map of North America was one of the first to emphasize the importance of the Mississippi and to give an accurate rendering of the Great Lakes. It shows California as an island, based on the cartography of Sanson's 1669 map, with the addition of mountain ranges along the eastern coast. Tooley, The Mapping of America, "California as an Island" (chapter 3), 57, plate 50, and "The Mapping of the Great Lakes" (chapter 10), p. 306 ("the best map of his time"). (2)
Coronelli's map of North America was one of the first to emphasize the importance of the Mississippi and to give an accurate rendering of the Great Lakes. It shows California as an island, based on the cartography of Sanson's 1669 map, with the addition of mountain ranges along the eastern coast. Tooley, The Mapping of America, "California as an Island" (chapter 3), 57, plate 50, and "The Mapping of the Great Lakes" (chapter 10), p. 306 ("the best map of his time"). (2)