Copper engraving, mm 460x615. Good example of this important map of Japan and Korea, embellished by a decorative cartouche with title at top. A good example with minor restoration at centerfold. From Coronelli's Atlante Veneto. The Atlante was professionally designed as a continuation of Blaeu's Atlas Maior and by 1701 was extended to embrace up to twelve volumes. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and Doctor of Theology, was citizen of the Republic of Venice. He was also one of the most prominent mapmakers and publishers in Europe of his day. Vincenzo Coronelli, in addition to being an ordined Franciscan priest who eventually became Father General of his order, was also one of the most prominent mapmakers and publishers in Europe of his day. He was appointed official Cosmographer to the Venetian Republic in 1685, a year after he founded the world's earliest geographic society, "L'Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti" in the same city. Cortazzi, Isles of Gold, p. 48. pl. 75; Potter, Antique Maps, pp. 126-7; Campbell, #33; Walter, Japan a Cartographic vision, 191