Porcacchi’s Map of Karpathos Printed Area Measurement_32 x 39.5 cm detail includes soundings

detail includes soundings

Droits de l’homme

appears to be shown as a thin dotted black line

At this point only four of the lines shown were under the umbrella of the UERL (Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd

Speed and Blaeu – who all devoted an entire map-sheet to each county – Janssonius occasionally depicted adjacent counties together

Porcacchi’s Map of Karpathos Printed Area Measurement_32 x 39.5 cm detail includes soundingsScarpanto (Karpathos) This map of Karpathos was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initial. It is from LIsole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 10. 8 x 14. 7 cm, recent hand colour