Candia vel Creta insula - Antique map

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

"Candia vel Creta insula". Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With title-cartouche and many ships. 19,5:16 cm (8 x 7 3/4 inch.).

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 512. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Crete. Oriented to the East. - Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1501-1575) was active as map publisher in Venice between 1558 and 1575. He was one of the most important mapmakers of the Lafreri-school.

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