Research Catalog

Title

The pre-siege maps of Malta : second century AD-1564 / Albert Ganado, Joseph Schirò.

Author

Ganado, Albert

Publication

[San Ġwann] : BDL Publishing, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schirò, Joseph, 1952-

Description

x, 229 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (color); 28 cm

Summary

The first separate map of Malta goes back to the last quarter of the fifteenth century which proves the importance of Malta at the centre of the inland sea notwithstanding its extremely small size. It was a vital focal point for navigators and a seaward bridge between Sicily and the Barbary States. However, it was only in the sixteenth century that Malta acquired the status of a pawn on the European chessboard. When it became the new seat of the Order of St John in 1530 after its eviction from Rhodes, the island was exposed to frequent raids by Ottoman forces and the Barbary corsairs of the fame of Barbarossa and Dragut.

Subject

• Cartography > Malta > History > Pictorial works
• Cartographers > Malta > Biography
• Cartography > History
• Cartographers > Biography
• Cartographie > Histoire
• Cartographes > Biographies
• Cartographie > Malte > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés
• Cartographes > Malte > Biographies
• Cartographers
• Cartography
• Maps
• Karte
• Kartografie
• Malta > History > Maps
• Malta > Maps > Early works to 1800 > Facsimiles
• Malta

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Maps
• Cartes géographiques.

Note

• A beautifully illustrated history of the pre-1564 maps of Malta: Describes 39 maps and provides brief biographies of the mapmakers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9789995746889
• 9995746883

LCCN

2016477218

OCLC

• 953965462
• SCSB-12024152

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library