Cartographic Wonders
Coronelli's South Sea
The Pacific from Venice, with California as an island.
- Map
- Mare del Sud, detto altrimenti Mare Pacifico
- Mapmaker
- Vincenzo Coronelli
- Date
- 1691
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Vincenzo Coronelli of Venice drew the South Sea, otherwise called the Pacific, for the first volume of his Atlante veneto of 1691. California floats free as an island. Across the ocean runs the route of Jacob le Maire and Willem Cornelisz Schouten. Coronelli dedicated it to the Venetian nobleman Giulio Giustinian, and wrote it in Italian with some labels left in Dutch and translated, a clue to where his information came from. Longitude is counted from Ferro. A Venetian map of an ocean the Dutch had sailed, with the seams of the borrowing still showing.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
