Lot no. 23
CORONELLI (Vincenzo). Description géographique et historique de la Morée reconquise par les Vénitiens. Paris, Barbin, 1686-1687; 2 parts in one vol. in-8 (182 x 112 mm), red morocco, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons, fillets on covers, int. dent. and gilt edges (Period binding). By the author of the famous globes who had just made them in Paris for Louis XIV (1684). First French edition. Description of the peninsula and islands of the Peloponnese that the Venetians had just reconquered from the Turks during the Morea War. Frontispiece, map and 53 / 55 double-page engravings (maps, forts, plans, views of towns): Navarin, Corfu, Coron ... without those of Passava and Porto Leone listed in the table.
A very fine copy in contemporary red morocco. Minor rubbing on the first cover.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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