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A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later, image 1
A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later, image 2
A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later, image 3
A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later, image 4
A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later, image 5
A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later, image 6
Lot 5

A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe,
Italian, gores published 1696, stand later,

Travel & Exploration
3 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later,

cartouche printed with dedication GLOBUM huiusmodi TERRAQUEUM GULIELMO III. Invictissimo ac Potentissimo Magnae Britanniae, etc. REG Dicat, Vovet, Consecrat Pater Magister Vincentius Coronelli Min:Conv:S.Francisci Serenissimae Venetorum Reipublicae Cosmographus MDCLXXXXVI Londini, the sphere with two sets of twelve copper engraved half gores mounted in brass meridian with graduated scales, later octagonal horizon ring and base with three turned columns, the gores with Tropic of Capricorn labelled Circulo del Tropico Hiemale o del Capricorno o Australe e dell'Antartico, along the Antartic Circle is a label TIERRA D AUSTRE LA TERRA MAGELLANICA AUSTRALE O MERIDIONALE INCOGNITA, a cartouche printed with notes on Magellan's voyage Fernando Magaglianes poco contento del Re di/ Portogallo suo Signore, ottenute 237. Persone da/ Carlo V parti da Siuiglia con 5 Naui nei di 10 Ag. 1519/ per stabilire uerso le Molucche strada piu breue, che/ per il C di Buona Speranza. Scoperto lo Stretta a 31/ Marzo 1520, e nominato lo di Magaglianes, entro nel/ Mare del Sud, e doppo hauer girata tutta la Terra/ in 3 anni, e 28 giorni, e fatte 14460 leghe, ritorno/ a Siuiglia con una sola Maue detta poi Vittoria/ net 1522 7 dibre da lui numerato 6/ per la nauigatione uerso/ L'Occaso., California is printed as an island, Australia lacks Eastern seaboard definition and printed Het Landt van Endracht Scopetra nel 1618, Terra di Lewin Scoperta nel 1622, Terra di Pietro Nuyts Scoperta li 26 Gen: nel 1627 New Zealand with printing HET NIEW ZELANDT Scperta dagli Medesimi l'anno 1654, overll height 28in (71cm)

Footnotes

Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718) considered by many to be the pre-eminent globe maker of the period, at the age of 15 became a novice in the Franciscan Order and also trained as a wood engraver. He eventually became the official cosmographer of the Republic of Venice and wrote more than one hundred works of terrestrial and celestial cosmography in Latin, French and Italian.
In his work "Atlante Veneto" he provided the first complete description of the whole world and in 1678 he constructed a pair of terrestrial and celestial globes for the Duke of Palma. His international reputation in globe construction was made when commissioned by Louis XIV to produce a massive pair of globes of 3.85 metres in diameter known as the "Marley Globes" they were widely admired by the court at Versailles.
In 1684 Vincenzo founded the Academy of Argonauts which was located in the friary of Frari in Venice and focused on the study of navigation and globe making. Vincenzo continued his experiments in hydraulics including a system for pumping water for fire fighting and in 1699 Pope Innocent XII commissioned him to help with the construction of a new port at Anzio. In 1717 he was invited by Emperor Charles VI to study the problems of the flooding of the Danube and his system of canals and locks was so successful that his designs were used to control flooding in other areas of the Austrian Empire.

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