Greenland & the North Pole – Antique Polar Map by V.M. Coronelli, c.1692

1692 · Maps

Greenland & the North Pole – Antique Polar Map by V.M. Coronelli, c.1692

Name: Greenland & the North Pole – Antique Polar Map by V.M. Coronelli, c.1692
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-00874
Price: 1445 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1692
Maker: Vincenzo Coronelli (Artist)
Kind: Maps
Technique: Engraved
Size: 49 × 68 cm (19.3 × 26.8 in)
Condition: Good. Minor fading. Good condition with some toning mostly in the margins. Please study images carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-00874

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The Arctic as a circular polar segment by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, an engraving dated 1692 in the listing, made for his large terrestrial globe for Louis XIV. The sheet is lettered in Italian with the legend "Oceano Scitico Settentrionale, e Glaciale" and "Terre Artiche" around the margin.

The projection is centered on the Pole, from which radiating lines of longitude run to a series of parallels, and an inner ring of text surrounds the center. Around the circumference the sheet shows the northern coastlines then known, including parts of Canada and the Hudson Bay region, Greenland, Scandinavia and Siberia, drawn with the loose, partly guessed outlines typical of the period. Pictorial scenes of hunters pursuing bears, seals and whales are set among the northern lands.

The sheet is unusual among Coronelli material for showing the polar region alone, and it is of interest for how the north of North America and the passages around it were imagined in the late seventeenth century.

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