Forlani’s map of the Holy Land

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La nuova et esatta descrittione della soria, e della Terra Santa.

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FORLANI, Paolo
Venetia,
Paolo Forlani,
1566.
Double-page engraved map.
272 by 355mm. (10.75 by 14 inches).
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Printed from a possible discarded first issue plate, with the date in the title cartouche in Roman numerals, rather than Arabic, and with the line break after 'esatta' in the title.

An unusual map showing the coast of the Holy Land with Cyprus, and the Levant coast to the south of the Dead Sea, engraved and published by Paolo Forlani. The map is based on Martin Waldseemüller's cartography in the 1513 edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia': Forlani probably saw Giorda...

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bibliography:

Laor, Holy Land, 864; Meurer, Strabo, p.123; Tooley, Italian Atlases, 436; Woodward, Forlani, 56; Zacharakis 1536.