[Verneda Giacomo / Count di San Felice], Coronelli V. M. (ed.), “Pianta della Citta e Fortezza d’Atene”, 41x26cm in a plate 60x44cm. Drawn in Athens in late 1687 and printed in Venice in 1689/1690. Proof-state. In late September 1687, the Venetian army, after the bombardment of Parthenon, conquered Athens. The head of the artillery corps, San Felice, ordered a skilled engineer, Verneda, to draw an accurate map of Athens and its environs. The map was soon ready and sent immediately to Venice by Morosini to inform the Senate about the monuments & physical landscape of his glorious new conquest. In a letter/answer written in Venice, in December 1687, the Senate thanks Morosini for the map of San Felice, that had just been received (Chatziaslani, Morosini in Athens, E.I.E. 2010). Verneda seems to continue his works in Athens during the winter of 1687/88, adding to his map the position of the Venetian mercenaries around Athens during the winter. Based on that map, Coronelli published probably the first accurate map of the city of Athens based on systematic land survey measurements. It had been initially planned for publication in Atlante Farnese (as this proof copy and its garland suggests), but finally published only in the very Rare also “Teatri de la Citta”. Unknown to all earlier researchers of Athens maps (Laborde,Michaelis etc). EXTREMELY RARE.