Pacific Map by Coronelli, 1691
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(Parte Del Mare Pacifica), engraved by Vincent Mario Coronelli (Theologian, Mathematician & Cartographer, Venice), 1691. 46.5 x 61.5 cm (plate size), finely executed copperplate-engraved map with some sensitive hand-colouring showing the west coast of Australia and the East coast of New Zealand, as discovered by the Dutch in 1654; block-mounted, gilt framed and glazed, overall 76 x 91 cm. Coronelli was appointed cosmographer to the Venetian Republic and was commissioned to produce terrestrial and celestial globes for Louis XIV, which now reside in the Biblioth e que National Francois Mitterand in Paris.
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- Louis Xiv - Louis XIV (1638 ? 1715), known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, ruled through Cardinal Mazarin as chief minister from 1643 to 1661 and as monarch of the House of Bourbon and King of France and Navarre from 1661 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years is one of the longest in French and European history.
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