Scarce map illustrating the Turco-Persian War of 1578-90
GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Descrittione della Prima Parte dell' Asia Con I nome Moderni o Barbari.
Venice: Andrea Muschio & Barezzo Barezzi, 1588. Sheet 210 x 260mm.
Trimmed within plate as issued (folded in the book)
A reduction of Gastaldi's important map of the Middle East, engraved to illustrate Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi's 'Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiani', an eye-witness account of the war between the Ottoman and Safavid empires.
Minadoi (1549-1615) travelled to Aleppo as the personal physician of Teodoro Balbi, the new Venetian Consul in Syria.
Stock ID : 18817
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Scarce map illustrating the Turco-Persian War of 1578-90
GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Descrittione della Prima Parte dell' Asia Con I nome Moderni o Barbari.
Venice: Andrea Muschio & Barezzo Barezzi, 1588. Sheet 210 x 260mm.
Trimmed within plate as issued (folded in the book)
A reduction of Gastaldi's important map of the Middle East, engraved to illustrate Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi's 'Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiani', an eye-witness account of the war between the Ottoman and Safavid empires.
Minadoi (1549-1615) travelled to Aleppo as the personal physician of Teodoro Balbi, the new Venetian Consul in Syria.
Stock ID : 18817
SOLD
To see similar items click here