Subject: Bulgaria & Greece
Period: 1720 (circa)
Publication: Descriptio Orbis Antiqui...
Color: Hand Color
Size:
15.4 x 12.3 inches
39.1 x 31.2 cm
An attractive map of ancient Thrace (mostly present-day Bulgaria) filled with place names and showing the military road from Apollonia to Maronea. The decorative title cartouche features a young woman playing a harp and a host of exotic animals.
References: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.WEIG-2a #21.
Condition: A
Contemporary color on a clean sheet of watermarked paper. There is a short centerfold separation in the bottom blank margin that has been archivally repaired.