Stalimene Lenno Greece Greek Island Aegean Sea 1620 Porcacchi miniature map

Descrittione dell'Isola di Lenno- Hoggi detta Stalimene.

(Greece- Greek Islands).

Issued ca. 1620, Venice by Porcacchi, Tommaso

Engraved by G. Porro

Delightful "miniature" map, with 4 large sea monsters around the island, a large pictorial city at center, scroll cartouche at bottom left. Text below the map and on verso, as always for Porcacchi maps.

Map remains clean and well preserved. 

Sheet measures c. 11 1/2" H x  7 3/4" W.

Printed area measures c. 4" H x  5 5/8" W

[R19967].

Tooleys Dictionary of Mapmakers , v. 3,

Zacharakis, Printed Maps of Greece, #1793

Sphyroeras, Maps and Map-makers of the Aegean, pp. 69-79