Insula Creta nunc Candia - Verkauf alter Karten

Autor: Lotter, Tobias Conrad

Verlag: Lotter

Verlagsort: Augsburg

Erscheinungsjahr : 1750

Kreta. "Insula Creta nunc Candia ... cum ... Aegei maris Insulis inprimis Nova Santorini Insula". Orig. copper-engraving, T. C. Lotter, Augsburg, ca. 1750. Orig. old colouring. With great figure title-cartouche with a coat-of-arms, ornamental cartouche with the scale of map and explanatory notes, and a view of Chania ("Creta nunc Candia") at the bottom. 49:57,5 cm.

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 1380. - A very decorative map of Crete. - Upper and lower margins cutted closely to the desk and yet in the 18th century added. Otherwise a dark impression, nice old colours.