Tartaria D Europa ouero Piccola Tartaria divisa da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola ne Tartari Nogai e del Crim, o di...

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Copper engraving, uncolored as published. This highly interesting map shows the Black Sea, the Ukraine with White Russia (Belarus) including the neighboring Georgia and Armenia. The map is equipped at the bottom with a highly decorative armorial title cartouche, further with many engraved place names (cities and small villages), rivers, lakes, woods, mountains, political borders, etc. This map was engraved by Franciscus Doria. The cartographer of this map is Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola (1643-1695), he worked in Modena in Italy and published many maps in Giovanni Iacomo Rossi s atlas in Rome.