Morea Peninsula - Old maps

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

"Morea Peninsula ...". Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With ornamental title-cartouche. 21,5:15,5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inch.).

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 503. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of the Peloponnese or Peloponnesus. - 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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