Francesco Salamanca

A very important map of Greece and western Turkey, compiled by Salamanca from Nikolaos Sophianos's landmark eight-sheet map of Greece of 1540, the most geographically accurate map of the region yet produced.

• Francesco Salamanca (Italian).
• Graeciae chorographia.
• Rome: circa 1558.
• This work is presented unframed.

This is the earliest available version, as the original has been lost and a woodcut version published in Basel in 1544 and 1545 are known by single complete examples of each.

Francesco Salamanca worked with his father Antonio Salamanca, who worked in partnership with Antonio Lafreri from 1553 until his death in 1562.

Francesco continued to work with Lafreri until the following year. This map seems to have been retained by Lafreri as the second state was issued by his successor, Claudio Duchetti.