MAGINI

DESCRITTIONE DELL’ASIA MINORE ADDIMANDATA VOLGARMENTE LA NATOLIA, E DELL’ISOLE CIRCONGIACENTI

Giovanni Antonio MAGINI (1555-1617)

Copper etching published in “Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra”

Gio. Battista & Giorgio Galignani Fratelli. Venice, 1610

18 x 14 cm.

A beautiful little map of Turkey  also showing Crete and many of the Aegean Islands. Atlases of islands were very popular at the time. The map occupies the centre of a larger page with text in Italian above and below. Copper engraving. Later colour.