Copper engraving on six unjoined sheets, 1200x1350 mm. This large wall map of the course of the River Danube from Vienna to the town of present day Nikopol in Bulgaria. The six sheets comprise a very large-scale map with detailed coverage of the region. It takes in modern day Hungary, southern Romania, much of Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia and the Dalmatian coast. Numerous regional coats of arms appear on the map which has a large decorative title cartouche with the imprint of the renowned Venetian mapmaker Coronelli. Although the title of the map relates to the course of the Danube River, Coronelli's intention was to show the theatre of the War of the Holy League (or Great Turkish War), 1683-99. Besides geographical features Coronelli includes historical data: many towns and cities have a list of the dates they were captured by the Turks or the Europeans. These give clues to the dates of the engraving: for example it notes Belgrade's capture by Duke Maximilian of Bavaria in September 1688 but not its recapture by the Turks in October 1690. A contemporary hand has added two more imperial victories in 1693, at 'Giulia' and 'Desno' in Hungary. Typically Coronelli is expecially proud of his home city's victories: next to the martial title cartouche is a list of Venice's conquests in Dalmatia, 1682-88. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli is considered one of the greatest, most industrious, and most eclectic Italian cartographers. Born in 1650 of modest origins, he received an ecclesiastical education in the Order of the Friars Minor Conventual of Saint Francis; he later became their Grand General and subsequently obtained the title of cosmographer of the Republic. He was also a public lecturer in geography at the University of Venice and the founder, at the same site of the Friars Minor convent, of the first geographical association: the Cosmographic Academy of the Argonauts. Having become famous as a mathematician and cosmographer, in 1681 he was called to the court of Louis XIV to construct two extraordinary and highly refined globes, one terrestrial and one celestial, 4 meters in diameter. His cartographic production consists of approximately 500 maps, all based on multiple sources, which allowed him to enrich the maps with a wealth of information (his toponymic precision is renowned) and occasionally to include curiosities and historical events. We owe him many famous geographical works: in addition to the Theatre of War, of notable importance are the Venetian Atlas, the Isolario, the Universal Course, the Singularities of Venice, the Book of Globes, etc.