CORONELLI, V.M. - [Title page] Gli Argonauti.

Very nicely engraved title page with cartographic instruments and allegorical symbols, with a globe oriented toward the Pole at the center.
The engraving appeared in Coronelli's "Corso Geographico". The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appointed General of the Order in 1701. He was cosmographer to the Republic of Venice and founder of the Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, the world's first geographical society (1680).
He was also one of the most prominent mapmakers and publishers in Europe of his day.