Euboea - Negroponte Insula, copperplate map, Camocio, Isole Famose, 1571 - Old maps for sale

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

Euboea, Greece. "Negroponte Insula". Orig. copperplate engraving, G. F. Camocio, 'Isole Famose ...', Venice, ca. 1571. With title cartouche. 20,5:16 cm (8 x 6 1/4 inch.) on paper sized 26,5:19,5 cm.

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 518. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Euboea, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. 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 Lafreri School.

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