Porcacchi’s Map of the Orkneys & Hebrides

Isola Hebride, et Orcade

First published in 1572, our map of the Hebrides and Orkney islands is from the second edition of L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books.

Condition & Materials

Copper engraving, 11 x 15 cm, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial, black and white.