CLUVERIUS, Philippus (1580-1622) – INSVLARVM Orientali Siciliae lateri objacentium typus.- 1619

Description

CLUVERIUS, Philippus (1580-1622) – VAN GEILKERCKIUS, Nicolaus (1585/86-1656)

Title of Map: INSVLARVM / Orientali / Siciliae lateri obja- / centium typus. / auctore / PHIL. CLUVERIO. Malta map: MELITA.

Engraver: Nicolaus Geilkerck caelavit Cartographer: Philipp Cluver

Title: PHILIPPI CLVVERI / SICILIA / ANTQVA: / cum

Place: Leyden Year: 1619

Engraving size: 285 x 368mm

Verso: Blank

Printing method: copper engraving

Description: This is the earliest Dutch map in the seventeenth century.This map was copied for the subsequent edition of Cluver’s book, published by Bunone in 1659 and by van der Aa for his Galerie Agreable … (1729).

map is in very good condition