Chios - copperplate map, Camocio, Isole Famose, 1571 - Scio. Chio ... Insula - Old maps for sale

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

Chios (Greece). "Scio. Chio ... Insula". Orig. copperplate engraving, G. F. Camocio, 'Isole Famose ...', Venice, 1571. With title cartouche and 2 ships. 22:16,5 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch.) on paper sized 26,5:19,5 cm.

 Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800; map nr. 517. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Chios, a Greek island in Aegean Sea. - 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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