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Cerigo Insula - Antique map

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"Cerigo Insula". Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With title-cartouche. 15,5:20,5 cm (6 1/4 x 8 inch.).

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Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Camocio

Venice

1571

"Cerigo Insula". Orig. copper-engraving from G. F. Camocio's Isole Famose .... Published in Venice by Camocio, 1571. With title-cartouche. 15,5:20,5 cm (6 1/4 x 8 inch.).

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 511. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Kythira (also Cythera, Kythera and Kithira), an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. Oriented to the Southeast. - 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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