Candia Insula olim Creta - Antique map

Author: Magini, Giovanni Antonio

Other authors: Porro, Girolamo

Publisher: Petrus Keschedt

Published: Köln

Publishing year: 1597

Crete. "Candia Insula olim Creta". Orig. copperplate engraving from G. Magini's 'Geographiae Universae'. Engraved by G. Porro. Published by P. Keschedt in Cologne, 1597. With title above the map, ornamental cartouche with explanatory notes ("Insula Creta Iouis ...") and another cartouche with the scale of map. 13,5:17 cm (5 1/2 x 6 3/4 inch.) on paper sized 16:23 cm.

Koeman III, map 7900:381, ed. 381:01; Zacharakis: A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800, 2nd edition, 1992; map nr. 1857. - Latin edition. - A miniature map of Crete.

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