Old maps of Malta

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1371   Yvert: 1336   Scott: 1190  

Perforation type: 14x14 ½

Subject:

1 cent. Map by Abbe Jean Quintinus, 1536

 

Additional:

*What is known as the Quintinus map is represented on the 1c stamp, courtesy of the Gozo National Library. This was the first printed map of the Maltese Islands accompanying the first printed description of Malta written by Abbe' Jean Quintin, and published in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphus. This map served as a model for several later maps, including one by Giacomo Gastaldi, and a series of siege maps by the Palombis in 1565, all of which are of the circular type.

 

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1374   Yvert: 1339   Scott: 1193  

Perforation type: 14x14 ¼

Subject:

1 pound and 2 cents. Map of maltese islands, by Fr. Luigi Bartolo, 1745

At least 3 windmills on the map it is possible to see.

 

Additional:

*The stamp shows a map of Gozo, with Comino, Cominotto and the Marfa peninsula on Malta, courtesy of the National Library, Malta. It is a pen drawing by Padre Luigi Bartolo, a Maltese Capuchin scholar. This map is orientated with the south-west to the top, as the convention that north should always be at the top had not yet come into being. The eight columns along the foot contain the key to 79 place-names.