Search Results: ENGRAVINGS & COLLECTIBLE MAPS // CARTOGRAPHY from DEMETRIUS SIATRAS

Very good. Wood engraving, 29x42 cm, printed in Leipzig, 1892

Brand new. Folio, ca. 1970

In English. Soft cover book, 30X22.5 cm, 152 pp., ill.
The large scale map of Cyprus (139 x 64 cm), coloured using the aquarelle technique, was drawn up in 1542 by the Cypriot Leonidas Attar. Attar was appointed by the Venetian authorities as a specialist in irrigation works and military fortifications, which he undertook together with Michelle and Girolamo Sanmicheli in both Venice and Cyprus; at the same time, he acquired the technical knowledge and experience in the drawing up of maps. Probably for strategic and military reasons, the map remained hidden in the archives of Venice from the 16th century onwards, and until a few years ago it was scarcely known. The discovery and study of the map by the authors has demonstrated that it is a very important primary source for cartography and for the history of Cyprus. The map shows the features of administrative and political cartography designed to furnish territorial information for governmental purposes. In the background of the map is depicted the… Read More

In english. Soft cover, 30X22.5 cm, 64 pp., ill. Deals with all maps of Cyprus, manuscript and printed, to be found in both the British Parliamentary Papers and the Public Record Office. Available now to scholars is a full carto-bibliography of the maps of the island made by the British government from 1878 to 1920 (of which only printed ones were included in Susan Gole's book, Maps of the Mediterranean Regions Published in British Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1921.). Also included in Cyprus on the Table is a detailed list of all British Parliamentary Papers relating to Cyprus from 1801 to 1920, accompanied by a subject index.

Brand new. Wood engraving, ca. 1885. Backside is printed with text. Dimensions 15.5 x 23.5 cm.

Brand new. Wood engraving, ca. 1885. Backside is printed with text. Dimensions 18.5 x 28.5 cm

Paris, 1825. Published in "Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece", 1825. Copper engraved antique map, good condition. Size 21.5 x 15.5 cm plus margins.

Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2004. Brand new. Multilingual (en-fr-gr) edition; Proceedings of the International Conference on the History of cartography, Athens, 1999; soft cover, net weight 880 gr., 24 cm, 402 pp. ISSN 1105-0845-25/26.

Nicosia: Politistiko Hidryma Trapezes Kyprou, 1999. Brand new. In english. Soft cover, 30X22.5 cm, 48 pp., ill. Despite its great attraction for the layman, the development of the sea chart cannot be understood without reference to the progress achieved in the fields not only of cartography but also of mathematics, astronomy and instrument making. From the early thirteenth-century sea charts on vellum to the nineteenth-century sophisticated British hydrographical surveys, chart-making underwent a variety of phases ranging from the Mediterranean portolans to the French eighteenth-century school of organized hydrography.

Athens: MIET, 2006. Brand new. In greek. Soft cover, 30x24 cm, 197 pp.

In english. Hard cover+jacket, 25X34 cm, 452 pp., ill.

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Athens, [19th ce.]. Original engraving, dimensions 10x16.5 cm plus margins.

Athens: Olkos, 1985. Brand new. Hard cover, 29 cm, 196 pp., 130 color plates. The volume is dedicated to the old manuscript or printed collection of island maps, the isolarii. These rare works, kept in the collections of European and American libraries and museums, are published for the first time. The edition illustrates the composite role of the islands during the Renaissance; it describes the adventure of knowledge in the sea places of history and legend together with the financial-political venture on the scales of this "island paved road" which, following the meridians, was showing the way to the markets of the Ancient and New World.

Leipzig: Verlag von Velhagen & Klassing, (ca. 1936). Very good. Folio, 30x45 cm, color map of Asia minor.

Brand new. Dimensions 17X24 cm plus margins, some sellotape stains on the back of the legend (see image), but the theme is clear.

Nicosia: Politistiko Hidryma Trapezes Kyprou, 2009. Brand new. Bilingual (greek-english) edition. Folio, 45 x 60 cm; contains six facsimiles of engravings by Louis-Francois Cassas, which are to be found in the Foundation’s collections and show views of Cyprus towns: Cyreneia, Larnaca, Famagusta, Bellapais and St. Hilarion.
Louis-Francois Cassas was a designer, engraver, sculptor and archeologist, who visited Cyprus twice, in February and April of 1785. Today, the few designs of Cassas make up the first successful attempt at a figurative representation of these Cyprus monuments that have been so much celebrated by artists and writers. In 1799, there appeared the edition "Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phenicie, de la Palestine et dans la Basse Egypte" together with the six sheets of Cassas containing the views of Cyprus. This edition is perhaps the most important illustrated book of the 18th century on Middle East and Cyprus.

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Athens. Brand new. Dimensions 18X23 cm plus margins, some sellotape stains on the back of the legend (see image), but the theme is clear.

Με τ' άρμενα της θάλασσας στα ρόδα των ανέμων - Χάρτες, Λιμάνια, Παραθαλάσσια τοπία Κεφαλλονιάς και Ιθάκης
Archive and Collection of Evridiki Livada-Duca. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.
Argostoli, 2018. Bilingual Greek-English edition. Soft cover, 23x31 cm, 164 pp., ill.: reproductions of old maps and gravures; net weight 970 gr. It also includes two historical appendices: one on the siege of the Castle of Saint George at Cephallenia in 1500 and the other on the battle of Lepanto and its connection with the region of Same.
ISBN: 978-960-98322-4-3.
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Athens: Olkos, 1985. Brand new. Clothbound, 29x22 cm, 263 pp., ill. The charting of the Aegean Sea from the 15th up to the 19th century with rare maps and texts by Anna Avramea, S. Asdrachas and V. Sfyroeras.

Nicosia: Politistiko Hidryma Trapezes Kyprou , 1989. Brand new. Bilingual (greek-english) illustrated edition. Soft cover, 27 cm, 272 pp.