Ionian Isles and Greece.

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Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. This fine engraved map is showing Greece including its islands, with many details and two small insert maps of Corfu and Stampalia. The map is decorated with five finely hand colored engraved vignettes: the temple of Jupiter, Olympus at Athens, greek corsairs of corfu, a ancient war chariot and a modern greek sitting on a stone. The actual map was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. The illustrations were engraved by various artists: R. Radclyffe, W. Lacy, J. Rogers, J. H. Kernot, J. B. Allen, T. Fleming, H. Winkles, R. Baker after drawings by H. Warren, H. Winkles and H. Wray.