Girolamo Ruscelli - Vincenzo Valgrisi

LN 2248

Southeastern Europe > Greece, Aegean Sea and islands (Crete, Cyclades, Euboea)

"Tabula Europae X."

Map of Greece, the Aegean Sea and its islands, e.g. Crete, the Cyclades, and Euboea. In the style of Ptolemy.

Etching from a Geography of Ptolemy edited by Girolamo Ruscelli, printed and published by Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice 1561, 19 x 24,5 cm.

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Maps by Italian mapmakers of the 16th century are worked out very fine and are famous for their elegant design. Remained copies are quite rare. Zögner, Imago Germaniae, p 14.

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