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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 76

Maps
Asia
Japan
1692 Isola del Giapone e Penisola di Corea ..., Vincenzo Maria Coronelli; 28 x 20¾ inches, uncoloured.

Important engraved map of Japan and Kora in Coronelli’s typically robust style. Coronelli used Dutch mariners’ charts as well as Jesuit sources. Honshu is depicted on the lines adopted by Martini, but mountain ranges are delineated pictorially. In the Sea of Japan a somewhat Italianate vessel with a large bank of twenty oars is afloat. It is described as being used on the route from Nagasaki to Osaka, a distance which it is said to travel in twelve days. An elaborate foliate title cartouche.

The map exhibits the fine engraving style of this coveted Venetian Atlas.

On laid paper with the usual central reinforcement. A few paper faults on some of the edges, fresh. Photo

Coronelli was possibly the best Italian mapmaker of his time. He made globes, including one 5 metres in diameter for Louis XIV. From Coronelli's rare Atlante Veneto, one of the most decorative and ornate of all 17th Century Atlases.

Estimate
SG$6,500 to SG$8,000