Philipp Kilian (sold)
Philipp Kilian (1628 - 1693) was a German engraver in the baroque style. He engraved the illustrations for Joachim von Sandrart'sTeutsche Academie. He made engravings for Barent Graat, and after paintings by Karel Skreta, Philippe de Champaigne, and Johann Carl Loth. He was among the engravers attracted to Venice to participate in the great work of Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, in 1688 executing the superb cartouches for the mapmaker's masterpiece 3 1/2 foot terrestrial globe.
South America from the Finest Globemaker of the 17th Century.
(Set of three Globe Gores of South America from the Equator to 50º south).
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This is a matched trio of globe gore sections covering most of South America, issued by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli in 1697. They are printed from the plates of Coronelli's 1688 3 1/2 foot Terrestrial globe. Coronelli considered the 1688 terrestrial and celestial globe pair to be his greatest work in print. He was not without justification: their superb engraving and encyclopedic geographic detail, not to mention their great size, set them easily amongst the finest globes produced in the 17th century. Desiring to display the quality of these works to a broader audience, and to challenge any potential competition, Coronelli published in 1697 a volume variously titled Libro dei Globi or Palestra Litteraria containing his globe gores (The title page bore a date of 1693, but the earliest known printing of the book was four years later.) 1697 was busy: Coronelli also included most of the gores from his terrestrial globe among conventional maps in his Atlante Veneto and Isolario that same year. In this case, less a product of the mapmaker's braggadocio and more a sensible reuse of expensively-produced copperplates. (more details)