SRI LANKA CEYLON

TAPROBANA DESCRITTIONE DELL' ISOLA TAPROBANA

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Attractive and unusual map of the island of Sri Lanka with north oriented to the right of the map. Only a bit of the Indian mainland is shown and it is incorrectly depicted to the east of the island.

Strapwork title cartouche, an unusual compass rose and a stipple engraved sea combine to make this a very attractive map.

This map was engraved by Girolamo Porro and issued in Porcacchi's L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo in 1572.

MINT Condition

Ref: King (2nd Ed.), p. 57-59.