Details

Subject(s)

• Emblems [Browse]
• Crete (Greece)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ērakleion (Greece)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Bird's-eye views—Greece—Crete—1642 [Browse]
• Maps—Greece—Crete—1642 [Browse]

Notes

• View of the city of Candia (modern Heraklion) on the island of Crete; relief shown pictorially.
• Includes emblem (tortoise, open book and snail on a table) in foreground and mottoes in German and Latin above and below the map.
• In upper right-hand corner: H48.
• From: Sciographia cosmica, dasz ist, Newes emblematisches Buchleï, darinen in acht Centurijs die vornembstë Stätt Vestung, Schlösser &c der gantzen Welt, gleichsamb adumbrirt ... / durch Danielem Meisnerum ... Nürnberg : Bey Paulo Fürsten, 1642.

Title in upper margin

Gemach kombt man auch weit

OCLC

713201131

International Standard Recording Code

HM 2011-30

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