Isula de Sicilia

Bound sheets. Ms. Cartographic Note: Scale. Additional Places: Sicily. Contents Note: Shows Mount Etna erupting.
From an isolario (island book) of the Mediterranean with descriptions but no plans of other islands including Cuba, Sumatra, Iceland, England etc. Bound with an Italian treatise on navigation, 'Tuto quelo richiede a l'arte da navigar', and notes on the lodestone in English, in contemporary Venetian binding.

Object Details

ID: P/17(50-51)
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Millo, Antonio
Places: Sicily
Date made: 1590
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 31 x 41cm
Parts: Manuscript on navigation and astronomy together with a treatise on the islands of the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific. (Manuscript)