Vincenzo Coronelli | Memorie istoriografiche del Regno della Morea, Venice, 1688, calf gilt

Vincenzo Coronelli

Memorie istoriografiche del Regno della Morea racquistato dall'armi della Ser.ma Reoublica di Venetia; di quello di Negroponte, e de littorali fin a Salonicchi. Venice: Giuseppe Maria Ruinetti, 1688

8vo (159 x 100mm.), with initial blank leaf, half-title, engraved title-page, folding engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, woodcut initials, 40 folding engraved plates (mostly maps and views), contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, red speckled edges, upper joint starting to crack

Coronelli's description of the coastal areas of Greece and beyond followed the Venetian reconquest of the Peleponnese ("Morea") from the Ottomans which began in 1684. It was first published in folio in 1686; the plates here are a reduced version of the plates and illustrations from that edition.