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.

Creator:

Meissner, Daniel, 1585?-1625

Publisher:

[Nuremberg : Paul Fürst, 1642]

Provider:

Princeton

Resource Type:

Satellite imagery

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

More details at:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/6425783