Cefalonia Insula - Antique map

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

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

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 509. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Cephalonia or Kefalonia, formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia, the largest of the Ionian Islands in western 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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