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Marca Anconae Olim Picenum.

  • ARTIST: Claudius Ptolemy

  • PUBLISHER: Published by Giovanni Antonio Magini.

  • MEDIUM: Copper engraving,

    DATE: 1597-98.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 5 x 6 3/4" (127 x 172 mm) plus text and margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: Detailed regional map of Ancona and part of Abruzzo on the eastern coast of Italy. From Ptolemy's Geografia, edited by Giovanni Antonio Magini. Italian translation by Leonardo Cernoti. This famous atlas combines Ptolemaic maps of the old world with "modern" maps reflecting 16th-century geographic knowledge. Engraved by Girolamo Porro.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Very good condition. Black & white.

  • REFERENCE: Phillips, Atlases, 405. Stevens, Ptolemy's Geog., p. 55.

  • CATEGORIES: Maps , Maps