Samos, Greece - Samo nella Archipelago, copperplate map, Camocio, Isole Famose, 1571 - Old maps for sale

Author: Camocio, Giovanni Francesco

Publisher: Camocio

Published: Venice

Publishing year: 1571

Samos (Greece). "Samo nella Archipelago che tal nome ...". Orig. copperplate engraving, G. F. Camocio, 'Isole Famose ...', Venice, ca. 1571. With ornamental title cartouche and a ship. 20,5:15,5 cm (8 x 6 1/4 inch.) on paper sized 26:19,5 cm.

Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 515. - First state of the plate, without the number in the lower right corner. - A rare map of Samos, a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor. Oriented to the Northwest. - 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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