Author: TSELIKAS, Agamemnon (transcription)
Title: Antonio Millo Isolario
Description: Athens, Greece, AdVenture AE, 2006. Hardcover. Introduction by George Tolias. 4to. Dark brown blind-embossed cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xlix, 300pp. Extensive illustrations, decorative endpapers. Fine/fine. Outstandingly tight and pristine first edition of this 1582 medieval Italian manuscript, a description of the eastern Mediterranean by a 16th century Venetian cartographer featuring facsimiles of its more than 200 maps -- with translations into both English and Greek. Press release laid in. The original is, of course, one of a kind, but surprisingly even this modern facsimile is rather uncommon. .

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