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130 x 175 mm., light brown in part of the centrefold otherwise fine condition.
A rare Ptolemaic map of Egypt published in Giacomo Gastaldi's influential edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia". It is adorned with a winged Phoenix lower left. Gastaldi was arguably the greatest Italian cartographer of the sixteenth century. It is also the world's first printed pocket atlas, and the first to use a mechanism to hold the plates in position so that the impression was good and level. Karrow, R.W. (16 c.) 30/34; Nordenskiold Collection 214; Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 369; Shirley "Atlases in the BL" T.Ptol 9a.
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GASTALDI, Giacomo : Tabula Africae III
130 x 175 mm., light brown in part of the centrefold otherwise fine condition.
A rare Ptolemaic map of Egypt published in Giacomo Gastaldi's influential edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia". It is adorned with a winged Phoenix lower left. Gastaldi was arguably the greatest Italian cartographer of the sixteenth century. It is also the world's first printed pocket atlas, and the first to use a mechanism to hold the plates in position so that the impression was good and level. Karrow, R.W. (16 c.) 30/34; Nordenskiold Collection 214; Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 369; Shirley "Atlases in the BL" T.Ptol 9a.
GASTALDI, Giacomo : Tabula Africae III is listed for sale on Bibliophile Bookbase by Clive A. Burden Ltd..
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