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Title: Candia Insula

Dates

• Coverage: 1642

Publishers

• [Nuremberg : Paul Fürst, 1642]

Summary

View of the city of Candia (modern Heraklion) on the island of Crete; relief shown pictorially. Includes emblem (tortoise, open book and snail on a table) in foreground and mottoes in German and Latin above and below the map. In upper right-hand corner: H48. From: Sciographia cosmica, dasz ist, Newes emblematisches Buchleï, darinen in acht Centurijs die vornembstë Stätt Vestung, Schlösser &c der gantzen Welt, gleichsamb adumbrirt ... / durch Danielem Meisnerum ... Nürnberg : Bey Paulo Fürsten, 1642.

Subjects

• Greece
• Emblems
• Crete (Greece)—Maps—Early works to 1800
• Hērakleion (Greece)—Maps—Early works to 1800
• Bird's-eye views—Greece—Crete—1642
• Maps—Greece—Crete—1642
• Other

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (23.4799, 26.3913, 35.7225, 34.7827)
• Geometry: BBOX (23.4799, 26.3913, 35.7225, 34.7827)

Provider

Princeton

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Meissner, Daniel, 1585?-1625. Candia Insula. [Nuremberg : Paul Fürst, 1642]. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-sn00b120d

Format

TIFF

Languages

• lat