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Metelin Mitilene - Antique map

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"Metelin Mitilene ...". Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With decorative title-cartouche and 4 ships. 22,5:17 cm (9 x 6 3/4 inch.).

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Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Camocio

Venice

1571

"Metelin Mitilene ...". Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With decorative title-cartouche and 4 ships. 22,5:17 cm (9 x 6 3/4 inch.).

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 519. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Lesbos, a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. 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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