Lot #: 85710
ISOLA CUBA - ISOLA IAMES io GIAMAICA - LA SPAGNUOLA - ISOLA D'ISLANDA. |
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Description
A rare contemporary colored copper engraved sheet with 4 maps. Three important maps of Caribbean islands — Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola, plus a major map of Iceland, by the leading Italian cartographer of the late 17th century.
The Cuba map includes a delightful cartouche showing the young Bacchus partaking of a goblet of wine. The map of Jamaica is divided into parishes and names numerous places along the coasts, rivers, a salt pond, and S. Iago (Spanish Town), which was the Spanish and English capital of Jamaica from the 16th to the 19th century.
The Iceland map is a reduced copy of Joris Carolus', but the forms of the names and other features suggest that the model was the version by Johannes Janssonius rather than that of Willem Janszoon Blaeu. This map is found in two states, with and [here] without the title in upper right corner. The first state appeared in "Atlante Veneto". The second state of the map appeared in 'Corso geografico universal', around 1696.
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718) was one of the most influential Italian mapmakers and was known especially for his globes and atlases. The son of a tailor, Vincenzo was apprenticed to a xylographer (a woodblock engraver) at a young age. At fifteen he became a novice in a Franciscan monastery. At sixteen he published his first book, the first of 140 publications he would write in his lifetime. The order recognized his intellectual ability and saw him educated in Venice and Rome.
He earned a doctorate in theology, but also studied astronomy. By the late 1670s, he was working on geography and was commissioned to create a set of globes for the Duke of Parma. These globes were five feet in diameter. The Parma globes led to Coronelli being named theologian to the Duke and receiving a bigger commission, this one from Louis XIV of France. Coronelli moved to Paris for two years to construct the King’s huge globes, which are 12.5 feet in diameter and weigh 2 tons.
The globes for the French King led to a craze for Coronelli’s work and he traveled Europe making globes for the ultra-elite. By 1705, he had returned to Venice. There, he founded the first geographical society, the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, and was named Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice. He died in 1718.
Reference: Kapp (MCC-42) #36. Grètarsson, Mapping Iceland.
The Cuba map includes a delightful cartouche showing the young Bacchus partaking of a goblet of wine. The map of Jamaica is divided into parishes and names numerous places along the coasts, rivers, a salt pond, and S. Iago (Spanish Town), which was the Spanish and English capital of Jamaica from the 16th to the 19th century.
The Iceland map is a reduced copy of Joris Carolus', but the forms of the names and other features suggest that the model was the version by Johannes Janssonius rather than that of Willem Janszoon Blaeu. This map is found in two states, with and [here] without the title in upper right corner. The first state appeared in "Atlante Veneto". The second state of the map appeared in 'Corso geografico universal', around 1696.
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718) was one of the most influential Italian mapmakers and was known especially for his globes and atlases. The son of a tailor, Vincenzo was apprenticed to a xylographer (a woodblock engraver) at a young age. At fifteen he became a novice in a Franciscan monastery. At sixteen he published his first book, the first of 140 publications he would write in his lifetime. The order recognized his intellectual ability and saw him educated in Venice and Rome.
He earned a doctorate in theology, but also studied astronomy. By the late 1670s, he was working on geography and was commissioned to create a set of globes for the Duke of Parma. These globes were five feet in diameter. The Parma globes led to Coronelli being named theologian to the Duke and receiving a bigger commission, this one from Louis XIV of France. Coronelli moved to Paris for two years to construct the King’s huge globes, which are 12.5 feet in diameter and weigh 2 tons.
The globes for the French King led to a craze for Coronelli’s work and he traveled Europe making globes for the ultra-elite. By 1705, he had returned to Venice. There, he founded the first geographical society, the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, and was named Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice. He died in 1718.
Reference: Kapp (MCC-42) #36. Grètarsson, Mapping Iceland.
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