An Historical and Geographical Account of the Morea, Negropont, and the Maritime Places, as far as Thessalonica.
Author: Coronelli, P.M. (Vincenzo Maria)
Year: 1687
Edition: First edition
Publisher: London; Matth. Gillyflower
Contemporary calf, 8vo., pp. 8, 1-230, 1. Illustrated with 42 plates, maps and plans. The spine divided in five compartments by four raised bands.
The leather worn and rubbed with bumped corners and a little loss both at head and tail of the spine. A small wormhole from the title page up till page 26, affecting just a few letters, but not the legibility. A few pages with short closed tears, about 1 cm in length. One plate with a small restoration in the upper margin, another plate with more extensive restorations and one plate supplied in facsimile.
Page 68 misnumbered 89 and page 213 misnumbered 113.
List of plates as per the plate index, followed by the captions of the plates in between brackets:
1) The general map of the Morea
(A map without a caption)
2) Patras
(Golfe de Patras)
3) Castel Tornese
(Casl Tornese)
4) Navarin
(Navarin)
5) Modon
(Modon)
6) Plain of Coron
(Coron)
7) Plain of Coron with the Incampments
(Plan de la ville et fortresse de Coron avec les campemens de l’an 1685)
8) Two prospects of Coron (2 plates)
(Veue de Coron du côte du golfe)
(Veue de Coron)
9) Standard taken before Coron
(Etendart pris sur les Turcs par l’armeé des Venetiens à la Bataille donneé
devant Coron – 1685)
10) Horse-tails taken with the standard
(Dessein des queues prises avec l’Etandard par les Venetiens sur les Turcs à la Bataille decant Coron l’an 1685)
11) Calamata and the battle before it (2 plates)
(Calamata)
(La Bataille devant Calamata)
12) Plain of Zarnata
(Plan de Zarnata)
13) Profil of Zarnata
(Veue de Zarnata)
14) Height of Zarnata
(Zarnata)
15) Plain of Chielefa
(Chielafa)
16) Plain of Passara
(Passava)
17) Mysitra or Sparta
(Misitra ou Sparte)
18) Plain of the ruins of Maina
(Plan de Maina)
19) Cape of Matapan
(Cap de Matapan)
20) View of Malvasia
(Maluasia)
21) Two views of Napoli di Romania (2 plates)
(Veue de Napoli de Romanie du coté du Port)
(Napoli de Romani)
22) Isle of Corfu
(Isle de Corfu)
23) Plain of Santa Maura
(S. Maura)
24) Santa Maura with the little isles round it
(Forteresse de S. Maura)
25) View of Cephalonia and the chart of the isle (2 plates)
(Cefalonie)
(+ a map without a caption)
26) Fortress of Asso
(Forteresse d’Asso)
27) Isle of Zant 1
(Isle de Zante)
28) Fortress of Zant 2
(Forteresse de Zante)
29) Port of Cerigo and Plain of Cerigo (2 plates)
(Port de Cerigo)
(Forteresse de Cerigo)
30) Megara
(Megare)
31) Port Lion
(Golfe d’Engia Saronicus Sinus {map})
32) City of Athens
(Ville d’Athene)
33) City of Negropont
(Negropont)
34) The ebb and flow of the Euripus
(Veue de Volo)
35) Plain of Volo
(Forteresse de Volo)
36) The Dardanelles of Lepanto
(Les Dardanelles de Lepanthe)
37) Lepanto
(Lepanthe)
Because 5 plates are indicated in the index as 2 plates (see the list above) the total number of plates is 42.
The plates for this edition were taken from the French edition published the year before in Amsterdam by Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, & van Someren.
The original appeared the year before in Italian. This edition was translated (“Englished”) by R.W. Gent.
Provenance: Wim Randolph 1689 (handwritten on front pastedown).
Biblio: Weber II, 812.
Acquired from Dominic Winter, their sale 27th January 2016, lot nr. 24.
