Porcacchi’s Map of Naxos Mapmaker(s)_Commander J Parsons Battishall

Battishall

This book explores the 20th century map archive

(Gordon Cawood Dickinson taught in the School of Geography at Leeds University between the 1950s and 1980s and wrote on aspects of the history of cartography

Numbering began in London in the 1760s (although house numbers were not used in official records until much later - the 19th century in some cases) but Horwood was the first to mark them on the map

covering the region of Syria in antiquity

Porcacchi’s Map of Naxos Mapmaker(s)_Commander J Parsons BattishallNicsia (Naxos) This map of Naxos 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.