Details

Subject(s)

• Limnos (Greece : Municipality)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Greece—Limnos Island—1576 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Porcacchi, Thomaso, approximately 1530-1585?. Isole piu famose del mondo. [Browse]

Notes

• Appears in the author's L'isole piu famose del mondo, descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro Padovano ..., p.139.
• The map appear in various editions of the atlas from 1576 to 1620. In later editions of the atlas the printing plate appears to have deteriorated. Page number varies in later editions.
• Map of Limnos Island set in a page of text; relief shown pictorially.
• Text in Italian on verso.

Source acquisition

Gift of the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund and matching funds provided by Amelia Brown '99 and Graham Elliot '01.

References

Zacharakis, C.G. Catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1793

This map appears in the atlas under the title

• Descrittione dell' isola di Lenno, hoggi detta Stalimene

OCLC

166748628

International Standard Recording Code

• HM 2010-37

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