EDWARD WELLS

View of the city of Vienna. Underneath an engraved broadside with an image of the "standard of the Prophet" which was seized from the Turkish camp at the Seige of Vienna in 1683 and subsequently presented to the pope in Rome; includes description; signed: Frano. Venturini sculp.

Appeared in: "Universus Terrarum Orbis (..)" by Alphonso Lasor à Varea and published by Frambotti and Jo. Baptistæ Conzatti in Padua, Italy, 1713.

Lasor a Varea, whose real name was Raffaello Savonarola, published his two-volume scriptural and historical dictionary with nearly 500 maps that were taken from old plates by Valegio, Porcacchi, Rosaccio-Franco, and Magini, many of which were more than a century old, and often reworked.