VINCENZO CORONELLI (1650-1718), Venice

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VINCENZO CORONELLI (1650-1718), Venice
Two sets of twenty-four single gores for a pair of terrestrial and celestial globes, diameter 47cm., dated 1699, each set with the twenty-four gore pieces cut out from the original engraved sheet, the terrestrial with descriptive texts and captions in Italian, Spanish, Latin, Dutch and English, prime meridian through Ferro, various tracks marked including Chaumont's track in 1685-1686 from Brest to Siam, the legend including a note on Le Maire's Strait and whether California is an island (the sections cut out from gore sheets, a few small pin holes to margins, celestial gores shaved to gratiale lines); together with a single engraved sheet comprising the polar calottes for each globe and eight sections for the horizon gores (a complete set for one globe, some small wormholes affecting sheet, one clean tear)

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A good set of both the terrestrial and celestial gores for Coronelli's 12-inch Library Globe, issued as sheets in the Libro dei Globi; Coronelli's atlas of gores first published in 1699, the set with the terrestrial gore date amended to 1699 is a second or third issue; in this example of the terrestrial the dedication cartouche is left blank. Cf. Van der Krogt. Cor L7, L8

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