Candia Insula

Description:: 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.
Resource Link:: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/6425783
Identifier:: ark:/88435/sn00b120d
Language:: lat
Creator:: Meissner, Daniel, 1585?-1625
Publisher:: [Nuremberg : Paul Fürst, 1642]
Provider:: Princeton
Resource Class:: Maps
Resource Type:: Digital maps
Subject:: Emblems, Crete (Greece)—Maps—Early works to 1800, Hērakleion (Greece)—Maps—Early works to 1800, Bird's-eye views—Greece—Crete—1642, and Maps—Greece—Crete—1642
Spatial Coverage:: Greece
Access Rights:: Public
Format:: TIFF

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