Jun 03, 2014 - Sale 2352

Sale 2352 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(CYPRUS.) Nelli, Nicolo. (Cipro.) Engraved map of Cyprus, with east at the top. 265x200 mm, ample original margins; removable minor soiling and pencil manuscript on the recto and verso, small wormhole in the left margin, and a pinhole in the image, overall a very nice example. [Venice], 1570
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Featuring Cyprus and issued in the year the island was invaded by the Ottomans. The waters around Cyprus are pictured teeming with Venetian ships; those waters would soon play host to a series of naval battles, most famously the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. This map was evidently reduced from the anonymous Italian plan, Cyprus que olim (Macharia), which is also in this sale. Navari 19 ("very rare"); Stylianou 38; Zacharakis 1602.