Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718) is one of the most influential Italian mapmakers and is known especially for his globes and atlases. The son of a tailor, Vincenzo was apprenticed to a xylographer (a wood block engraver) at a young age. At fifteen he became a novice in a Franciscan monastery. At sixteen he published his first book, the first of 140 publications he would write in his lifetime. The order recognized his intellectual ability and saw him educated in Venice and Rome. He earned a doctorate in theology, but also studied astronomy. By the late 1670s, he was working on geography and was commissioned to create a set of globes for the Duke of Parma. These globes were five feet in diameter. The Parma globes led to Coronelli being named theologian to the Duke and receiving a bigger commission, this one from Louis XIV of France. Coronelli moved to Paris for two years to construct the King’s huge globes, which are 12.5 feet in diameter and weigh 2 tons.
The globes for the French King led to a craze for Coronelli’s work and he traveled Europe making globes for the ultra-elite. By 1705, he had returned to Venice. There, he founded the first geographical society, the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti and was named Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice. He died in 1718.
Fine chart of the Mediterranean coastline Southern Italy and southern part of Sicily, which appeared in Volume 1 of Coronelli's Corso Geographico, published in Venice. The sea chart would appear to be the chart originally issued in 1663 by Francesco...
Fine chart of the Mediterranean coastline of part of Spain and North Africa, which appeared in Volume 1 of Coronelli's Corso Geographico, published in Venice. The chart covers the coast of Granada, Murcia, and Valencia, along with the contiguous...
Fine chart of the Mediterranean coastline of part of Granada and North Africa, which appeared in Volume 1 of Coronelli's Corso Geographico, published in Venice. The chart covers the coast of Granada, from Malaga to Carboneras and the contiguous...
Nice example of this scarce map of Portugal, published by Coronelli in his C orso Geogrpaphico. The map includes a number of coats of arms and decorative embellishments. Decorative title cartouche appears in bottom center embellished with military...
Celebrating the Ventian Conquest of Preveza Fine early map of Preveza Bay on the west coast of Greece, published in Venice by Coronelli. The map was likely published to commemorate the conquest of Preveza and environs by the Venetians from the...
Rare Coronelli map of the Bosphorus Straits, from his Atlante Veneto. A second example of the same region appears in the inset at the top left, based upon a Relation by Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, an Italian scholar and eminent natural scientist,...
Striking Example of Coronelli's Striking Two-Sheet Map of Asia Fine example of Coronelli's detailed map of the Asian continent. The map shows the latest discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and is dedicated to the Jesuit missionaries at...
Nice example of Nolin's scarce map of Asia. The map is the work of the remarkable collaboration between Venetian mapmaker Vincenzo Maria Coronelli and Jean Baptiste Nolin, who would later become the Royal Geographer under Louis XIV in 1701. The most...
Fine example of Coronelli's map of the provinces of Shantung and Peking, from Coronelli's rare Corso Geografico Universale, one of the most decorative and ornate of the 17th century. Coronelli's map exhibits in fine detail the features of the region,...
![[Shanghai & Yangtze River] Nanking, et Honan Provincie della China . . .](/map/small/46304.jpg)
Nice example of Coronelli's regional map the eastern Chinese Provinces of Nanking and Honan with a typically ornate cartouche at lower left with title and crest above. The map provides an early look at the areas around Shanghai, Hangzhou, Jinan,...
Decorative and highly detailed regional map of China, including parts of the Szechwan and Hunan Provinces. Shows the city of Chungking along the Yangtze River. Many decorative embellishments, including title cartouche and elaborate coat of arms....
![[Includes the Isle of Luzon or Manila!] Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China . . .](/map/small/62758.jpg)
Fine Map of Coastal China with the Island of Luzon or Manila Fine example of Coronelli's map of the provinces of Guandong, Guangxi Fujian and Jiangxi, including Hainan, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Taiwan from Coronelli's rare Corso Geografico...
![Parte Occidentale della China . . . [with] Parte Orientale della China . . .](/map/small/64242.jpg)
Coronelli’s Map of China—Rare Original Color Example Fine example of Coronelli's striking two-sheet map of China. The work is in original color, a rarity for a map that is one of the most sought after of large-format maps of China. The map covers...
Striking early map of the Chinese provinces of Iunan (Yunan), Queicheu (Guizhou), e Quangsi (Guangxi), from Coronelli's Corso Geografico Universalle. The map includes a number of place names and topographical details, highly decorative title and...
Nice example of Coronelli's important map of Japan and Korea, published in Venice. Ezo named 'Tartari de Yupi'. In the sea between Japan and Korea is a vignette of a boat described as a Japanese vessel capable of crossing the 220 French miles between...
Striking example of Coronelli's map of Northern India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, etc., and extending north to the Himalayas. Some of the more interesting early place names include Cabulistan, Kandauna, Harduari, Binsola, Burchar, Kachemire, Iamba,...
