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Camocio
Venice
1571
Patmos (Greece)."Palmosa Patmo ... Insula ...". Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With ornamental title-cartouche and a ship. 21:16 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inch.).
Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 514. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Patmos, a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Oriented to the West. - 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.