Coronelli’s Map of Athens, a German Edition Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 15.5 cm original hand colour to both

original hand colour to both town plan and prospect

such as the Post Office

Benjamin Getzel Lewis' map of the London underground shows the Victoria Line under construction in the originally proposed colour

Both are now extremely rare

b/w strip-maps on verso

Coronelli’s Map of Athens, a German Edition Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 15.5 cm original hand colour to bothVorstellung des Alten und Neven Athens, von dem Venetiani schen Geographo Herrn Pat. Coronelli verzeichnet Coronellis plan retains features of the earliest modern map of Athens, which was drawn by French Capuchin monks circa 1670 as a mixture of conventional plan and birds eye view. The first printed version was originally published in Paris in 1675 to illustrate Guillet de Saint George's Athnes ancienne et nouvelle; it also influenced contemporaries