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Porcacchi’s Kythera

Porcacchi’s Map of Kythera

SKU: 5741
£150.00
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Title:
Porcacchi’s Map of Kythera

Date of publication:

  • 1605

    • Printed Measurement:

  • 10.8 x 14.7 cm

    • Colour:

  • modern

    • Mapmaker:

  • Tomaso Porcacchi

    • Engraver:

  • Girolamo Porro

    • Cerigo (Kythera)

    This map of Kythera was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initial. Read more

    It is from L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books.

    Condition & Materials

    Copper engraving, 10.8 x 14.7 cm, recent hand-colour. Read less