Calabria Citra olim Magna Græcia [map].

Author
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Amsterdam : Willem Janszoon Blaeu and Joan Blaeu, 1645]
Description
  • (E 15°25ʹ00ʺ--E 17°20ʹ00ʺ/N 40°08ʹ00ʺ--N 38°56ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 48 cm.

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Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Shows northern Calabria; Magna Graecia is the collective name for the ancient Greek seaport colonies in southern Italy. cf. Webster's new geographical dictionary.
  • Latin text on verso with caption title: Calabria, sive Magna Græcia; p. 105; signature Ssss.
  • From: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus ... / editae a Guiljel. et Ioanne Blaeu. Amsterdami : apud Iohannem Guiljelmi F. Blaeu, 1644-1645. Vol. 3.
Source acquisition
Historic Maps copy is gift of Robert A. McCabe, Princeton class of 1956.
References
Koeman, C. Atlantes neerlandici (New ed.) 7491:2:202-3
Other title(s)
Magna Graecia
OCLC
1340486179
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