1688 Coronelli (3 results)
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1st Edition. Very good. Expert fiber reinforcement to margins. Size 18 x 24 Inches. A seminally important map, this is the 1687-88 Coronelli-Nolin separately-published map of the North American Southwest, in its first edition. This map is a cornerstone for any collection dedicated to the southwest: it is the first published map…to introduce the cartography of Don Diego Peñalosa with regard to the Rio Grande valley as far north as Santa Fe. Peñalosa's cartography not only has a swashbucklingly enigmatic history, but it is also foundational for most subsequent maps of the region for the next century. This is also one of the earliest maps, following the 1660 Nicolosi map, to correctly map the Rio Grande emptying into the Gulf of Mexico as opposed to the Sea of California. A Closer Look Coverage centers on the western and northern parts of the Rio Grande, here identified as the Rio Bravo in the south, and the Rio del Norte in the north. It extends west to include the Sea of California and the 'Isle of California', and north to include what is today southern California, and south to include parts of Mexico. In modern terms, coverage incorporates most of New Mexico, parts of Arizona, Texas, southern California, and northwestern Mexico, including Baja Sur, Baja Norte, Sinaloa, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Zacatecas. Annotations discuss the various provinces, noting early explorations dating to Guzamano (1532), Cortez (1534), Alarcon (1540), and Cabrillo (1542). Correcting the Rio Grande The Rio Grande, here identified as the Rio del Norte and, to the south, the Rio Bravo, significantly, flows correctly from the mountains north of Santa Fe south, then southeast to the Gulf of Mexico. This is one of the earliest maps to make this correction, following the 1600 map of Giovanni Battista Nicolosi. Coronelli makes note of this significant point, La Riu: du Nort tombe dans le golfe de Mexique, et non pas dans la Mer de Californie. Translation to English: [The Rio del Norte flows into the Gulf of Mexico, and not into the Sea of California.] While not the first to make this correction of the Rio Grande, Coronelli's influence was such that he popularized the correction into cartographic canon. New Cartography in New Mexico Of perhaps greater significance is the Coronelli's mapping of the upper Rio Grande / Rio del Norte after the cartography of Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Berdugo (1621 - 1687). Peñalosa was the erstwhile governor of New Mexico, exiled by the Inquisition. Peñalosa fled to France (c. 1687), where he campaigned for France to conquer New Mexico and set him up as a modern-day Cortez. Peñalosa brought with him never-before-seen cartography; a manuscript map, likely in Peñalosa's own hands, survives in the Naval Library in Paris (Lowery 225), and is likely Coronelli's source. The map offers a wealth of never-before-published indigenous placenames in the Upper Rio Grande, as well as proper mappings of the known site: Taos, Santa Fe (correctly mapped for the first time), and Acoma. This last, 'Acoma' is significant and features a descriptive annotation of interest, Acoma. Est une grande Ville du Nouveau Mexique, située à 37 degrés de Latitude, et 259 de Longitude, elle est Bastie sur un Rocher fort haut, l'on n'y peut aller qu'en montant cinquante degrés. Taillez dans ce Rocher, on la nomme autrement St Étienne de Acoma, elle est la Capitale de la Province de ACOMA. [Acoma. It is a large city in New Mexico, located at 37 degrees latitude and 259 degrees longitude. It is built on a very high rock, and one can only reach it by ascending fifty degrees. Carved into this rock, it is also called St. Stephen of Acoma, and it is the capital of the province of ACOMA.] This may be the earliest published cartographic reference to the Acoma cliff dwellings. The description can be attributed to Pedro de Castañeda, who accompanied the Coronado Expedition (1540 - 1542) and sighted the dwellings in 1540. Further n.
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Excellent. Slight wear and toning on original fold. Size 26.25 x 39.25 Inches. This is Vincenzo Coronelli's striking 1688 two-sheet map of North America - one of the largest and most influential atlas maps to appear in the late 17th century. It emerged as much of North America had yet to be penetrated or was in the earliest stag…es of exploration and colonization - a true golden land of possibility. There is much of interest, including being among the first maps to embrace the cartography of Don Diego Peñalosa in New Mexico, a bold embrace of the Insular California trope, recognition of the Danish explorations of Jens Munk, an early usage of the term Chicago (Chekagou), and an interesting mapping of the apocryphal Lake May, the great inland sea of the southeast. A Closer Look On two uncolored folio sheets, as issued, this map embraces North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Hudson Bay to Panama, thus including all of Central America and the West Indies. The cartography, vignettes, and other detail mirrors Coronelli's 1688 globe gores, but, as Burden notes, neither the gores nor this map has clear primacy. The map is rich with detailed illustrations, placenames, factual and speculative cartography, and decorative elements. It features one of the earliest uses of the term Chicago, here 'Chekagou,' referring to the Chicago River. The Mississippi is placed well west of the Great Lakes, bordered on the west by a mythical supposed mountain range. It erroneously empties into the Gulf of Mexico in what is today southern Texas, near the Rio Grande. La Salle's forts, established in the 1660s, are noted on the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. California is boldly illustrated in an insular form on the Luke Foxe / Sanson model. The map names the supposed wealthy American Indian cities of Quivira and Teguayo (Teguaio) hidden in the mountains north of Santa Fe. Throughout, the map is rich with vignettes and annotations featuring Indigenous Americans. These include a disturbing scene just southwest of Hudson Bay where a human leg is being smoked. Other images include fish preparations, villages, an alligator eating men, men eating an alligator, fishermen on rowboats in the Gulf of Mexico, and more. The confounding yet striking Venetian Baroque cartouche in the upper left features several divine or angelic figures. A ship appears wrecked beneath them, the long tresses of another flow beneath like water, and still a third features a heavenly halo. They are surrounded by scientific and navigational equipment. Just to the right, the map bears a dedication to Felic Antonio Marsily, Archdeacon of the Cathedral of Bologna. La Salle, Peñalosa, Coronelli - Ambition and Treachery This map is the first to capture one of the most compelling narratives of exploration, ambition, and treachery in the history of North American colonization. Coronelli's map draws heavily on the explorations and imagination of an elusive but noteworthy figure, Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Berdugo (1621 - 1687). Peñalosa was a Peruvian-born Creole descended from Spanish nobility. Through an array of misadventures, he briefly became Governor of New Spain before falling afoul of the Inquisition, resulting in his exile. He concocted a plan for self-aggrandizement and revenge against Spain, which he presented to King Louis XIV of France in 1687. The King declined. Nonetheless, while in the French court, he became close with René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who adopted his plan and successfully presented it to the King, arguing for a French settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi. Although Peñalosa was rejected, La Salle met with royal approval, and a colonization attempt ensued. Peñalosa argued that a French colony could be easily established at or near the mouth of the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande). He suggested that the region was poorly defended and sparsely populated but that such a colony would have ready access to both the coveted silver mines of S.
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Contact seller4-star sellerVery good. Bold strike, with generous margins and no verso text. Size 18.25 x 11 Inches. This scarce, beautiful engraving is a 1688 Coronelli globe gore map of the Atlantic Ocean from the Equator to 50° N, encompassing the Grand Banks, the Azores Islands, and the Cape Verde Islands. It was engraved in Vincenzo Coronelli's 42-inc…h (3 1/2 foot) terrestrial globe, reprinted in 1697 for inclusion in his Libro dei Globi and Isolario . In addition to the above locations, it includes near the equator an archipelago labeled 'Revedo de S. Pedro' which may represent the Atlantic island of Saint Paul. Among the other islands featured is the mythical paradise of St. Brendan. A Closer Look Coronelli's connections in Paris meant that he could rely on superb data for those places where the French were foremost in exploration: the gore includes part of the sailing tracks of Chaumont's 1685 embassy from France to Siam, for example. Coronelli also includes the tracks of the typical route across these waters from Europe to the Americas and back. As is typical of Coronelli's maps and globes, the present work is filled with historical and descriptive annotations. These discuss such themes as the yearly competition for the codfish of the Grand Banks by European fishermen (and, apparently, great flocks of birds), the possibility that the island of Madera was known to the ancients Pliny and Ptolemy under different names, and the discovery of the Cape Verde Islands by the Portuguese in 1460. A descriptive text in the lower left discusses the mouths of the River Amazon, which appeared in the gore to the left of this one. The Imaginary Island of St. Brendan Coronelli includes, about halfway between the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands, the 'undiscovered and believed to be fabled' island of Saint Brendan. This phantom island was first conceived as early as CE 512, when its namesake claimed to have landed on it and celebrated a Mass with a group of 14 monks. In his hagiography of Saint Brendan, the monk Barino mentioned having visited this same island in the Atlantic, describing it in such a way that it could be construed as the terrestrial Eden. Despite no concrete charting of the island, it appears on several medieval mappamundi . Portuguese sailors reported having seen, but not having landed upon it, and it was among the wonders that Christopher Columbus hoped to discover. Efforts to locate the island in the 16th century resulted in unprovable reports of visits and sightings, and despite the lack of concrete evidence it continued to appear for many years - though seldom accompanied by such a skeptical commentary as here. In Context Although much of the detail of this map can be seen to be substantially the same as that which appears on Coronelli's two-sheet America Settentrionale, the finer elements - such as the ships' tracks - appear to be unique to the globe. The globe engraving predates that of the map, which has a terminus post quem of 1690. Coronelli's Most Beautifully Engraved Plate of the Region The gore is of superb workmanship, visible in its well-placed, contrasting text, and its bold lines The general delineation is the same as would appear on Coronelli's two-sheet America Settentrionale and his two-sheet map of Africa, but close comparison reveals the engravings for the globe gore to be superior in detail and execution. Clearly Coronelli applied higher standards to his globes than to his conventional printed maps, as beautiful as those were. In particular, the sailing tracks appearing on this gore are repeated neither on the two sheet America map nor on the Africa. Publication History and Census This engraving was executed in 1688, as part of Coronelli's 3 1/2 foot terrestrial globe, and was masked off for inclusion in one of Coronelli's bound volumes: this sheet can be found in both the Libro Dei Globi and the Isolario . Scianna has catalogued only thirteen copies of the full Libro dei Globi in institutional and private collections; p.
