A rare view of Souda, with decorative borders

LOCATELLI, Alessandro.

Porto della Suda.
Venice: Girolamo Albrizzi, 1691. Map 130 x 175mm, with separately-printed borders, total 215 x 260mm.

Printer's crease in bottom right corner.

A view of the port of Souda within a border of a garland of fruit. The Venetian fortress finally fell to the Ottomans in 1715, over thirty years after the rest of Crete.
It was published in Locatalli's ''Racconto historico della Veneta guerra in Levante diretta dal valore del Serenissimo Principe Francesco Morosini'', an account the Turkish-Venetian wars in the Peloponnese, led by the Doge Francesco Morosini.

ZACHARAKIS: 2062.
Stock ID : 21035