Vincenzo Coronelli - Memorie istoriografiche de’ regni della Morea, Negroponte e Littorali - 1686

(GREECE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; ILLUSTRATED) Vincenzo CORONELLI (1650-1718)
Memorie istoriografiche de’ regni della Morea, Negroponte e Littorali fin a Salonichi Accresciute in questa seconda edizione. Nel Laboratorio del P. M. Coronelli Della Ser. Republica di Venezia (1686)
§ 8vo (164 x 105) [14], 237, [1] pp. XVIIIth half calf binding, gilt titles on spine, half-title, engraved title page, 42 (double-page) plates, woodcut initials, a fine and complete copy, practically flawless.
First published in 1685. A description of Greece and of the territories there recently conquered by Venice in the war against the Ottoman Empire. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, an Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopaedist, is especially remembered for his atlases and globes. In 1684 he founded in Venice the Cosmographic Academy of the Argonauts, the oldest devoted to geography, promoted by the patrician G. B. Donà and enjoying the protection of the Doge Marcantonio Giustiniani. In 1685 Coronelli was appointed public cosmographer of the Republic of Venice, a title which he proudly used it in almost all of his works and that gave him the privilege of printing a large atlas (Ferrari).
 AUGUSTO DE FERRARI Coronelli, Vincenzo In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; Graesse II, p. 273