THE RECONQUEST OF PELOPONNESE (MOREA).

CORONELLI, P.M. (VINCENZO MARIA). - THE RECONQUEST OF PELOPONNESE (MOREA).

Memorie istorio grafiche de Regni della Morea Negroponte e Littorali fin á Salonichi. Aceresciute in guesta Seconda edizione.

Venezia, (1686). 8vo. (16,5x11 cm.). Contemp. full vellum. Halftitle-page. Engraved Title-page (the Lion of St. Mark). (8),237,1 blank,(2- Indice) pp. and 41 (of 42 ?) double-page folded engraved maps and plans (bird's-eye views or plans of fortified towns and places etc.). Internally fine and clean. Printed on good paper. A fine copy.

Second edition (the first 8vo-edition), issued the same year as the first (in folio), describing the Venetian campaign for the reconquest of the Peloponnese or Morea, from which Venice had been almost completely excluded since the Turkish conquest of the Greek island in 1458.

"As is often the case with Coronelli's work, the contents may vary with each example as plates were added, subtracted or changed as the editor saw fit" (Rodney Shirley "Maps in the Atlases of the british Library", T.Coro-1a, - listing only 39 maps and views for this copy).

Coronelli Vincenzo Maria, an Italian geographer and draughtsman, was born at Venice about 1650. From 1681-1683 he worked in Paris on a pair of 3.85 meter diameter globes for Louis XIV, which are now in the National Library in Paris. On his return to Venice he was made cosmographer of the Republic, and founded the Academy of Argonauts (the first Geographical Society). In 1702 he became general of his order.

Order-nr.: 49367