Coronelli’s Map of Athens, a German Edition Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 15.5 cm Presentation copy

Presentation copy

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

b/w strip-maps on verso

black and white (key information highlighted in pink wash)

coloured to identify the relevant sheet

Coronelli’s Map of Athens, a German Edition Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 15.5 cm Presentation copyVorstellung 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