Lasor a Varea's issue of Franco's map of Cyprus

FRANCO, Giacomo.

Cipro.
Padua: Giovanni-Battista Conzatti, 1713. 95 x 175mm, set in text.

Giacomo Franco's map of Cyprus, first published in 1597 and again with text by Giusseppe Rosaccio the following year, here republished in Alfonso Lasor a Varea's 'Universus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum calamo delineatus'. Nicosia is marked, illustrating the star-shaped defensive walls of the city.

See BCCF: 40 for first issue.
Stock ID : 15862