Colfo di Lepanto - Antique map

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

Gulf of Corinth.("Colfo di Lepanto"). Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With title in the desk and 2 cartouches. 15:20,5 cm (6 x 8 inch.).

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 507. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf, a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. - 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 La Freri-school.

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