270. [MAP]. [CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria]. [Globe gore showing Lower California, the Sea of Cortez, the Southwest (including Santa Fe), West Texas and the Rio Grande, and Northern Mexico to Jalisco]. [Venice, 1688-1699]. Copper-engraved globe gore with later partial coloring. Top horizontal measurement: 17.5 cm; lower horizontal measurement: 27.5 cm; vertical: 45.1 cm. Lightly stained on right side (slightly protruding into map image), right side expertly remargined, otherwise fine.

     This half gore by Coronelli was one of twelve for a globe measuring almost four feet in diameter, commercially offered by Coronelli between 1688 and 1699. The geography shows considerable advances in the Southwest, particularly the course of the Rio Grande and discoveries by Peñalosa. Leighley, California as an Island 88. Shirley, The Mapping of the World 537 (Plate 376B). Stevenson, Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, Vol. II, pp. 97-115. Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast #420n (discussing the various formats of Coronelli’s globe, including the present one, and commenting that the geography is the same exhibited in his Atlante Veneto of 1690); pp. 135-137. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 73n. Citations to Coronelli’s two-sheet map of America with the same geography: Martin & Martin 12n. McLaughlin, California as an Island 103n. Tooley in “California as an Island” in Mapping of America, p. 125 (#57n & #58n). California is labelled as “Isola di California,” and the text at lower left includes discussion of the insularity of California. ($1,000-2,000)