| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 5170 |  | Details | Porcacchi, Tomasso | 1572 |
| Antique map of Cyprus Cipro by Porcacchi |
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Porcacchi, Tomasso |
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| 1572 |
| LOC:2 |
| $375.00 | Porcacchi--Tomasso | Antique-map-of-Cyprus-Cipro-by-Porcacchi | Authentic copperplate-engraved antique map of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus (Cipro) by Tomasso Porcacchi.
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Printed in Tomasso Porcacchi's "Isolario" or island book "L'Isol Piu Famose Del Mondo". That work contains a number of finely engraved maps of islands and the continents at a reduced scale. Porcacchi (1530-1585) was born in Tuscany to a poor family and first settled in Florence. He wrote about history, geography, and archaeology and later published the Isolario from Venice, Italy in three editions beginning in 1572. |
| 2518 |  | Details | Graves, Thomas | 1850 |
| Antique map of Cyprus from Thomas Graves |
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Graves, Thomas |
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| 1850 |
| LOC:4 |
| $280.00 | Graves--Thomas | Antique-map-of-Cyprus-from-Thomas-Graves | Steel engraved map of Cyprus based on a large chart produced after the survey by Admiral Thomas Graves in 1849.
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From Longbeare and Howson. The Life and Epistles of St. Paul. London: Published by Longman & Co. |
| 4964 |  | Details | Sabry, John | 1980 |
| Manuscript map of Cyprus by Cypriot artist John Sabry |
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Sabry, John |
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| 1980 |
| LOC:200 |
| $1,800.00 | Sabry--John | Manuscript-map-of-Cyprus-by-Cypriot-artist-John-Sabry | Manuscript (hand-drawn) illustration of Cyprus by Cypriot artist John Sabry (1914-2006). ( Τζων Σάμπρι ). Date not stated but assumed 1980's. Fine condition.
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Sabry is the author of pictorial maps of Cyprus in the "Romantic Cyprus" guide book (1947): Famagusta & Varosha, and Nicosia. John Sabry was born and raised in Kyrenia, Cyprus; a painter from an early age, he also worked as a professional photographer and managed the Kodak shop in Nicosia during the 1950’s.
In 1965 three of Sabry's paintings were selected for the Royal Academy Summer show in London. |