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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli: Globe Gore [Northeastern US & Caribbean & Northeastern South America]
Title: Globe Gore [Northeastern US & Caribbean & Northeastern South America] Map Maker: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli
Description: A fine wide-margined example of Central North America and Gulf Coast globe gore from Coronelli's 42 inch Terrestrial Globe. The map depicts part of Coronelli's landmark geographical information in North America, including a fine treatment of the region from the mouth of the Chespeake to Newfoundland and the mouth of the St. Lawrence. The return route from the West Indies to Europe is also depicted, along with various sailing routes through the Caribbean. In the Caribbean, the map extends west to Gigante Is (Bahamas), Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, covering all of the Windward Islands. A nice depiction of the northeastern part of South America is also given. The map is richly illustrated with many more aninmal and geographical vignettes and other annotations. The cartography of the gore is very similar to Coronelli's 2 sheet map of North America, which appeared in his Atlante Veneto, and there is some question as to which was published first. Vincenzo Coronelli apprenticed as a Xylographer, before joining the Convental Franciscans in 1665. In about 1678, after studying Astronomy and Euclid, Coronelli began working as a geographer and was commissioned to make a set of Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Ranuccio II Farnese, the Duke of Parma which were 5 feet in diameter. Coronelli was next invited to Rome to construct a similar pair of Globes for Louis XIV. From 1681 to 1683, Coronelli lived in Paris, where he constructed a pair of 10 foot diameter globes for the King, at a weight of nearly 4000 pounds. The fame and importance of Coronelli's globe led to the production of a 42 inch diameter globe in 1688, for which complete of examples of which reside in a number of major institutional collections around the world. Separate globe gore sheets from this famous globe periodically appear on the market. Coronelli worked for a number of years as a Geographer and Theologian, before returning to Venice in 1705, where he published his Atlante Veneto and founded the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti.
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