A Private Archive of Antiques & Historical Objects
Category
Maps, charts, and the instruments by which the world was charted.
1 object
1590 · Italy
Descrittione dell'Isola Taprobana
A Venetian copperplate map of an island Europe argued over for two thousand years: Taprobana, the dream-version of Sri Lanka, engraved by Girolamo Porro for Porcacchi's island atlas, c.1590.
