VAN DER AA, Petrus – CLUVERIUS, Philippus – INSVLARVM ORIENTALI SICILIAE LATERI OBJA- CENTUM TYPUS – 1723

Description

1723 – VAN DER AA, Petrus (1530 – 1594) – after CLUVERIUS, Philippus (1580-1622)

Title of Map: INSVLARVM / ORIENTALI / SICILIAE LATERI OBJA- / CENTUM TYPUS.

Draughtsman: Cartographer: Pieter (Pierre) Vander Aa

Author: Graevius, Joannes Georgius, 1632-1703, [GRAEVIUS, Johann Georg (1632-1703).]

Title: 1723 – PHILIPPI CLUVERII

Publisher: Pieter (Pierre) Vander Aa

Place: Leiden

Year: 1723

Engraving size: 130 x 174mm

Verso: blank

Printing method: copper engraving

Notes: Maps of Malta and of Meleda are copied from those by Cluver, in his ‘Sicilia antiqua’.

Description: This copy of Cluver’s map of 1619 has only slight differences. The cartouches are new, the calligraphy simpler, the sea monsters and shipping are wanting, and it is unsigned.