Porcacchi’s Map of the Gulf of Lepanto Dorset from Liverpool to Quebec

from Liverpool to Quebec

charged by the French king with mapping the coasts of France first and then the rest of the world

He continued to revise and augment his charts over the next thirty years

The text of this edition was printed in London by Moyes

Old ink stamp to title

Porcacchi’s Map of the Gulf of Lepanto Dorset from Liverpool to QuebecIl Sito de Curzolari (and Gulf of Lepanto) This map of the gulf of Lepanto was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initial. It is from LIsole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. The battle of Lepanto, 1571, was the first great defeat of the Turkish navy, and marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman naval supremacy.