[Verneda Giacomo / Count di San Felice], Coronelli V. M. (ed.), “Pianta della Citta e Fortezza d’Atene”, (42x27cm). Drawn in Athens in late 1687 and printed in Venice in 1689. The very first proof state. In late September 1687, the Venetian army conquered Athens, after the bombardment of Parthenon. 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 (12/1687), 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. This is the very first issue of the map. It has been initially planned for publication in the “Atlante farnese” (as an other surviving proof suggests), but finally has been published only in the very rare “Theatro de la Cita”. Unknown to all earlier researchers of Athens maps (Laborde, Michaelis etc). Extremely rare.