Fine view of Corfu with the port and citadel. At the bottom, descriptive panel with text in Latin and German. Rare first edition with the privilege and signature of Leopold, published in Augsburg in 1725.
The work shows the fortified city with its imposing Venetian walls, twin fortresses, and harbor bustling with sailing ships, reflecting the commercial and military fervor of the time.
The typical Baroque style, with its use of scenic perspectives, cherubs, and decorative cartouches, gives the print a celebratory and almost theatrical tone. The meticulous detail of the buildings, ships, and surrounding landscape makes this engraving a valuable historical testimony to urban planning and life in the eastern Mediterranean under Venetian influence.
The winged figures holding cartouches and coats of arms, the chiaroscuro effects, and the theatrical perspective are typical elements of Leopold’s Baroque production, which combined topographical rigor with artistic sensitivity. Under Venetian rule (1386–1797), Corfu became a key bulwark for the defense of the Adriatic and a cultural bridge between Italy and the Greek world. The fortifications, designed by famous Venetian engineers, withstood numerous Ottoman sieges, consolidating the island’s reputation as “the key to the Levant.”
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Out of stockBeautiful seven little maps on one sheet: A large map of Crete, with six smaller maps across the top showing the Ionian Islands of Kerkira (Corfu), Zakinthos (Zante), Milos, Naxos, Santorini and Scarpanto. The map of Crete names many places, rivers and mountain ranges. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius with german text on verso. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”.
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 198 x 140 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Very decorative and rare plan of the city of Candia on the island of Crete. From Coronelli’s Corso Geografico Universale published in Venice in 1690. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli is widely recognised as one of Italy?s most famous and greatest cartographers. He received an ecclesiastical education at the convent of the Minor Conventuals and also studied theology in Rome. However, his interests in geography and cartography were awoken early in his ecclesiastical career and never suppressed. He made ve
- Year: 1690
- Dimension: 450 x 600 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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Creta Iouis magni medio iacet insula ponto; Corsica; Sardinia; Insulae Maris Ionii
More Info € 450,00Fine and early historical map of Crete surrounded by smaller maps of Corsica, Sardinia and islands in the Ionian Sea (Corfu, St. Maura, Ithaca, Cephalonia and Zante). From the 1624 final edition by Balthasar Moretus of the first historical atlas ever published. Ortelius’s Parergon began as a companion to his Theatrum but eventually it became an independent work. In fact, this collection of maps of the ancient world was so significant that it became the…
- Year: 1624
- Dimension: 342 x 491 mm
- Place of publication: Antewerp
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Out of stockDetailed map of Crete published in 1866 by Dietrich Reimer and based on the representation of the island drawn by the English hydrographer, geologist and vice-admiral Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1881-1888). The interesting map also features an inset with the valley of Mylopotamos, a locality in the northern part of the island, in the prefecture of Rethymnon. It will be reprinted in 1897 (Cf. Bibliothèque nationale de France, GED-2736 ) with the addition in plate…
- Dimension: 25 x 54 cm
- Place of publication: Berlin
- Year: 1866
