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Stock# 28936
Description
Rare map of the island of Cyprus from Francesco Piacenza's: L'Egeo Redivivo o'sia Chorographia dell'Arcipelago, e dello stato primiero, & attuale di quell'isole, regni, città, populationi, dominii, costumi, sito & imprese, con la breve descrittione particolare sì del suo ambito littorale, che della Grecia, Morea, o'Peloponnese, di Candia, e Cipri, published in Modena in 1688.
Finely detailed map of Cypus, showing towns, mountains, rivers and topographical details. Embellished with several ships.
This work was probably inspired by the Venetian conquests in Greece in the 1680s. It includes a very thorough and systematic description of the Aegean Islands, Crete, Cyprus, and brief descriptions of Roumelia and the Peloponnesus.
Condition Description
Minor repairs on verso.
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