CYPRUS insula olim Macharia
Venice,
1562
Engraved map.
245 by 180mm. (9.75 by 7 inches).
12165
notes:
The second state of Mario Cartaro's map of Cyprus. Originally issued in Rome in 1560 by Cartaro, it was republished by the Venetian mapmaker Ferrando Bertelli. Although the sheet gives the place of printing as Rome, this map was often printed in composite atlases on the same page as a map of Crete by Bertelli, which gives the place of printing as Venice. Cartaro would later go on to become the official cartographer to the Kingdom of Naples; his monogram appears in the lower...
bibliography:
Almagià 117; Bank of Cyprus 9; Borroni Salvadori 120; Destombes 55; Gallo M 69; Kraus 50; Parke-Bernet 60; Shirley I 125; Stylianou 26, fig. 32; Tavernari 73; Tooley 182; Zacharakis 356.
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