Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

236 c   CORONELLI, VINCENZO. La Francia Divisa in XII Prefetture. Engraved general title, engraved Gli Argonauti frontispiece, 3 engraved title-pages, 20 engraved sectional titles and 281 engraved plates and maps (several folding). 20 parts in 3 volumes. Oblong 4to, 7 1 / 2 x9 1 / 2 inches, rather nice contemporary vellum with minor worming to spines, each spine lettered in ink “Coronelli Teatro da Guerr” and numbered T4, T5, and T6; title-pages to volumes II and III from the same plate as volume I with manuscript alterations, large maps with small separations at fold intersections, minor intermittent staining; ex-libris bookplates of Jean R. Perrette. [Venice, circa 1706] [2,000/3,000] A handsome copy of the complete French section of Coronelli’s monumental 20(?) volume “Teatro della Guerra”.