Signed in the plate by the Dutch engraver Joannes van DoetecumĬyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean. The map is embellished by sailing ships and a sea monster, bearing a map of the Greek Island of Lemnos in an inset mp at bottom right, based on the written account by Pierre Belon in 1555. Plate size: - 19 3/4in x 14in (500mm x 355mm)Ī milestone in the history of the cartography of Cyprus, based on a 1570 map by Giacomo Franco. Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable This actual map is a true first edition or state (1573IG39A), of 3 states, with German text & page number 39A on the verso. There were a total of 6275 of these maps published between 15, with approx. This extremely handsome and much sort after original antique map of the Island of Cyprus was published by Abraham Ortelius in 1573.
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