Copper-engraved incunable world map
[Untitled Ptolemaic World Map.]
Rome: Petrus de Turre, 1478-90. Printed area 330 x 535mm.
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A very early printed map of the world, published in the second edition of Angelus & Caldarini's version of Ptolemy, first published 1478. The map is indistinguishable from the first edition. An unusual feature of the series is the lettering, which is not engraved with a burin but stamped onto the plate.
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Joined at the centre, as issued; a few small repairs to edges.References:
SHIRLEY: World 4, 'Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578'.Related products
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