75/2109 [Astronomy]. Coronelli, M. V. Epitome Cosmografica, o compendiosa introduttione All'Astronomia, Geografia, & Idrografia, per l'Uso, Dilucidatione, e Fabbrica Delle Sfere, Globi, Planisferj, Astrolabj, e Tavole Geografiche, E particolarmente degli stampati, e spiegati nelle publiche lettioni. Colonia (= Venice), "ad istanza di" A. Poletti, 1693, (44),418p., 32 (incl. frontisp.) (of 38) engr. double-p./ fold. plates (4x handcol.), contemp. limp boards.

- Lacks 6 plates; partly sl. (vaguely) waterstained in outer blank margin, not touching text or image ("Indice" sl. worse); occas. some foxing; upper hinge sl. weak. Binding rubbed. Nevertheless a good copy. Almost all copies traced incomplete.

= Houzeau & Lancaster 8006. "The most celebrated Italian globe maker is Vincenzo Coronelli, a Franciscan monk from Venice. His reputation in the field was established in 1681 with the production of the so-called 'Marly globes', a pair with a diameter of almost 4 metres, made for the French king, Louis XIV. (...) In order to finance his globe making, Coronelli founded the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti in 1684" (Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, pp. 112 and 312). Coronelli's Epitome Cosmografica contains very fine plates depicting i.a. wind roses of the ancient Greek winds (Anemoi), their Roman counterpart and later English version, the universal system according to i.a. Ptolemy and Copernicus, different types of globes (i.a."Globo celeste e sfera armillare di Cristoforo Tefleo" 1683) and hemispheres. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.