Description:
Light browning to first volume from page 250 to final pages, else a marvellous sample with a splendid folding bird's eye view of Venice.A splendid copy of the Isolario by Vincenzo Coronelli, with hundreds engravings including 62 double page engraved plates and 41 full page engraved plates including the maps of China, Japan, Madagascar and the Indian islands.The Isolario is the second part of the Atlante Veneto with the first volume covering the Mediterranean, Italy and the Adriatic; the second, Britain and Europe, Africa, Japan and Asia, and the West Indies.
This work is considered one of Coronelli's most ambitious undertakings.
Phillips I, 521; Shirley BL, T.COR-13.
Collation and complete list of plates are available on request.
