Fortezza di Macarsca - Antique map

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

Makarska.("Fortezza di Macarsca"). Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With title in the desk, onamantal cartouche and many ships in the foreground. 18:23,5 cm (7 x 9 1/4 inch.).

First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of the environs of Makarska, a small city on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia. - 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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