This engraving depicts the island of Jamaica in the Caribbean Sea.
From the second edition of Tommaso Porcacchi's "Isolario" containing 47 maps of islands and regions of the world, including new maps not present in the first edition. The atlas included the reduced-size version of Forlani's very important map of North America - the first of the landmass as a single geographic entity - and the first atlas map of North America. Other regions shown, in some detail, include; Crete, Cyprus and many other Greek Islands, Malta, Minorca, Majorca, Ireland, the British Isles, Madagascar, Moluccas, and in the New World, Cuba, Mexico City, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. The map was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is a fine examples of sixteenth-century Italian cartography.The engraving is inserted in a page of Italian text, with text on verso.
Publication: Giorgio Angelieri for Simon Galignani de Karera, Venice
Condition: Good.
Color: Uncoloured. Mildly age toned. The attached photo is part of the item description, please examine carefully.
Size (h x w): approx. 28 x 19.5 cm, (sheet)
Technique: Copperplate
Engraver: Girolamo Porro
Date: 1576
Ref: JJB2791