Zante insula posta nel mare Mediteraneo - Antique map

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

"Zante insula posta nel mare Mediteraneo ...". Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With decorative title-cartouche. 17,5:21,5 cm (7 x 8 1/2 inch.).

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 508. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Zakynthos, a Greek island in the Ionian 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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