Nice example of Willem Blaeu's map of Sardinia, set in a page of text. Fine dark impression and clean wide margins.
Finely executed map of Sardinia, published in Amsterdam by Valk & Schenk. The map includes a decorative title cartouche, compass rose, coat of arms and second cartouche, along with sailing ships and a sea monster.
Nice example of Mercator's map of Sicily and Sardinia, from Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, first published in 1578 and republished in Amsterdam beginning in 1695. Gerard Mercator published his edition of Ptolemy’s maps as what he...
