Rosaccio. Giuseppe.Franco, Giacomo. Euboea.Negroponte. Venice Giacomo Franco or M Sadeler 1598-1610
Copper engraved map of Euboea from "Viaggio da Venetia, a Constantinopli per mare, e perterra, & insieme di Terra Santa." Italian text to verso , with historiated capital. The heading title "A Constanopoli." above map; page number 63; plate number 51. Dark impression; wide margins. Lightly toned, fingermarks to margins.
Guiseppe Rosaccio's " Viaggio da Venetia a Constaninopli. . . " first appeared in Venice in 1598 published by Giacomo Franco, who also engraved many of the maps. In the first edition the plates appeared within the letterpress with the title of the book above. Navari notes that the maps may first have appeared in the little known work" Raccolta da disegni di tutti le ciità et fortezza di mare che sono nel viaggio a Constantiopli" published in Venice a year earlier [1597] and that some of the plates were engraved by Natale Bonifacio
Zacharakis also has a footnote re copies without text to verso.
Zacharakis:2965/1947;Blackmer. Navari 1447. 102 by 176mm (4 by 7 inches).
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