Dardanel d'Natolia. [&] Dardanel ver Grecia.
[Engraved by Giuseppi Rosaccio.] [Padua: Conzatti, 1713.] Pair of engravings, set in letterpress. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 4¾2). A pair of views of the two Ottoman forts that guarded the Dardanelles, one on Asia, the Europe. On the reverse is another map of the source of the Danube. Originally published in Rosaccio's 'Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli' (1598), this sheet comes from 'Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus ... qui de Europae, Asiae, Africae, & Americae regnis, provinciis, populis, civitatibus...', a geographical and historical dictionary by Alphonse Lasor à Varea (pseudonym of Raffaello Savonarola, d. 1748). Despite the plates being over a century old the only alteration is a rudementary attempt to scratch out the plate numbers top left.
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