ARTIST: Claudius Ptolemy
PUBLISHER: Published by Giovanni Battista and Giorgio Galignani, Venice.
MEDIUM: Copper engraving,
DATE: 1597-98.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 4 7/8 x 6 13/16" (12.4 x 17.3 cm), plus text on either side.
DESCRIPTION: Copperplate map engraved by Girolamo Porro. 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. Map of northeastern Italy, from Venice to Trieste, and Slovenia.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition.
REFERENCE: Phillips, Atlases, 405. Stevens, Ptolemy's Geog., p. 55.
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