A Spanish-born bookseller active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century, Antonio Salamanca collaborated with some of the most important literary and cartographical names of the day, including Antonio Lafreri, after whom the Lafreri school is named. Although he was primarily a publisher and seller, Salamanca also produced his own maps, including a depiction of the Holy Land printed in Rome in 1548. It was based on Pietro Vesconte's map of 1320 (see item 79) and took into account the improvements made by Nicolaus Germanus around 1480 (see item 4), but was on the whole transformed by a number of important adaptations and improvements.

Salamanca's version of the map contained new geographical information, notes about the religious history of certain sites, and the territories of the Twelve Tribes. Oriented to the east, it extended from the northern coast of the Sinai Peninsula up to Sidon, and stretched from the Mediterranean across the Jordan to the eastern mountains that marked the termination of the Holy Land. In 1565, 17 years after Salamanca's version of the map appeared, another was published by Giovanni Francesco Camocio, a printer and publisher active in Venice throughout the mid-sixteenth century, who became infamous due to a series of obscene sonnets and pornographic prints he produced during the 1560s. In sharp contrast to these, Camocio also printed and sold religious images, as well portraits, decorative prints, and maps. He did not undertake original cartographic designs himself, but printed the material of others including, apparently, Salamanca.

Camocio's version of the map differs very little from Salamanca's, although the title has been changed from 'Tabula Moderna Terrae Sanctae' to 'Situs Terre Sancte Iuxta Numeru Filior Israel Per Apices Seu Pucta Divisus'. The first state was published, as here, around 1565, without Camocio's imprint; the second example published in 1575 is the third edition, with the imprint added but Camocio's name erased.