VILLAMONT (Jacques de).Livre Rare Book
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1606PHO-1989Lyon, Claude Lariot, 1606. In-8 de 8ff.-510pp.-19ff., demi basane (reliure du XIX°), frottements, titre renforcé avec manque de lettre au verso, manque au 1er feuillet de la dédicace sans atteinte, manque le feuillet 113-114 (ici en copie), manque aux 2 derniers feuillets avec atteinte au texte.
168649367Venezia, (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.
168649367Venezia 1686. 8vo. 165x11 cm. Contemp. full vellum. Halftitle-page. Engraved Title-page the Lion of St. Mark. 82371 blank2- 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. <br/><br/><em>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. </em> hardcover
