1698 Levanto (1 results)

Very good. Few marginal mends and filled wormholes, not impacting printed image. Else excellent. Size 15.75 x 20.25 Inches. This is Francesco Maria Levanto's 1664 chart of Crete and the adjacent Greek islands, in its 1698 Coronelli edition. Levanto's nautical atlas, Prima parte dello Specchio del Mare , was a translation of Pieter Goos' 1662 Zee-spiegel . The Italian adoption of this cartographic model is testimony to the primacy of 17th century Dutch hydrography, however misplaced it may have been in this case. A Closer Look Crete - here termed Candia - dominates the chart, but it is off-center toward the west to allow space for the island of Karpathos to the east ( Scarpanto ). To the north is an archipelago, the most prominent island of which is Stampalia , or Astypalea. The southernmost islands here are Gavdos and Gavdopoula, the southernmost islands of Greece. Here, they are named Gozo and Antigozo , respectively. (Venetians named the islands in imitation of the Maltese island Gozo.) The Source The chart is a translated copy of Pieter Goos' De Zeekusten van 't Yland Candia - which itself was a close copy of Jacob Colom's 1657 Candia met de Omleggende Eylanden which was copied not only by Goos, but also Doncker, and Jacobsz. This was the dominant late 17th-century cartographic model for Crete, which Zacharakis terms the Type F 'Portolan' model. It first appeared on manuscript charts of the 16th century but was adopted by Dutch cartographers in the mid-17th century. It is worth noting that Coronelli's edition - appearing in 1698 - was reproducing a 41-year-old printed chart based on portolans from a century prior. Also, the toponymy derives from the Italian/Latinate names used on Venetian charts, which were the apparent source material for Colom in his production of the earliest charts in this lineage. Thus, the eventual publication of this chart by the Venetian Coronelli brings matters full circle. Publication History and Census This map was engraved for inclusion in Francesco Maria Levanto's 1664 Prima parte dello specchio del mare This work was produced in at least two further editions: one reported Genoese edition of 1676, followed by the atlas' inclusion, without change, by Vincenzo Coronelli in his 1698 Atlante Veneto . Based on the folio size exhibited on the present example, we judge it to be a Coronelli edition. We see two separate examples of the Genoa edition of this work in the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana and the Universitatsbibliothek Kassel and one separate example of the Coronelli edition at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. References: OCLC 495030009. Zacharakis, C. G. A Catalogue of Printed Maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2030.