[Alberti Sebastian], [3 maps] Coronelli V. M. (ed.), “Isola di S. Maura”, 60x46cm & on verso “Isola di Cefalonia” 28.5x22cm Venice 1688 TOGETHER WITH “Piazza di Sta Maura, Esvoi Borghi Assediata dall Armi della Serenis ma Republica de Venetia Rezza li 7 Agosto 1684 / Dissegno delineato dal Ingegnero ALBERTI”, J. Peeters, Antwerp, 1686. Just after conquering Lefkada, Morosini ordered an accurate new map of the island for military and administrative reasons. A team under the leadership of the engineer Sebastian Alberti and under the supervision of the new governor of the island Bembo, will take two years to complete the necessary systematic land survey measurements, and finally to produce in 1688 the first accurate map of the island. The original manuscript map has been kept in the Venetian archives up to the end of the Republic, when it was taken to Vienna (now at the Wien State Archives). Coronelli V. M., based on Alberti’s manuscript map, published the current map in the 1690s (Όλγα Κατσιαρδή Hering, «Η λευκάδα στη βενετική χαρτογραφία 1686-1729», στο «Χαρτογραφίες της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου», 2004). The Lefkada plan published by Peeters in 1686 clearly mention on its title the engineer Sebastian Alberti as the designer of the map proving his crucial role in the Venetian cartographic operations of the island. It is noteworthy the significant difference in accuracy, between the geodetical map of Lefkada and the Kefalonia map (included in the same sheet), although Kefalonia was already under Venetian rule for more than 200 years that time. Zacharakis 1048, 1065. Please note that current Lot.3207 price and description has changed comparing to the printed catalogue.