Porcacchi’s Map of Naxos Mapmaker(s)_Commander J Parsons covering the region of Syria

covering the region of Syria in antiquity

In the margin to the left of this map is an incomplete list of sultans of the Ottoman Empire

Numbering began in London in the 1760s (although house numbers were not used in official records until much later - the 19th century in some cases) but Horwood was the first to mark them on the map

He wrote the seven books of the Adversus Gentes to convince the local bishop of the sincerity of his new beliefs

(Gordon Cawood Dickinson taught in the School of Geography at Leeds University between the 1950s and 1980s and wrote on aspects of the history of cartography

Porcacchi’s Map of Naxos Mapmaker(s)_Commander J Parsons covering the region of SyriaNicsia (Naxos) This map of Naxos was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initial. It is from LIsole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 10. 8 x 14. 7 cm, recent hand colour.