Coronelli’s Map of Athens, a German Edition Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 15.5 cm and folded differently to fit

and folded differently to fit the format of the book

Presentation copy

This map of Sri Lanka was published in the first trade edition of Stanford’s ‘London Atlas’

original hand colour to both town plan and prospect

black and white (key information highlighted in pink wash)

Coronelli’s Map of Athens, a German Edition Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 15.5 cm and folded differently to fitVorstellung des Alten und Neven Athens, von dem Venetiani schen Geographo Herrn Pat. Coronelli verzeichnet Coronellis plan retains features of the earliest modern map of Athens, which was drawn by French Capuchin monks circa 1670 as a mixture of conventional plan and birds eye view. The first printed version was originally published in Paris in 1675 to illustrate Guillet de Saint George's Athnes ancienne et nouvelle; it also influenced contemporaries