Item #4789 The First Engraved Atlas of the World - The Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemaeus published in Bologna, 1477 - LIMITED EDITION. Edward LYNAM.
The First Engraved Atlas of the World - The Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemaeus published in Bologna, 1477 - LIMITED EDITION
The First Engraved Atlas of the World - The Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemaeus published in Bologna, 1477 - LIMITED EDITION

The First Engraved Atlas of the World - The Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemaeus published in Bologna, 1477 - LIMITED EDITION

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania: George H. Beans Library, 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio. Pp. 34. Notes, index. Four single-folded photostat map reproductions in back cover pocket. Bound in dark red cloth stamped with gilt lettering. Text pages printed on Strathmore All Rag Book watermarked laid paper. Edition limited to 200, this copy number 15. Beans Library publication number 16. Back gutter parted, front nearly so, corners bumped, discoloration shadow. Light stains on one map verso. Includes laid in envelope containing prospectus, lightly soiled. Good+. Item #4789

Origin and descent of Ptolemy's Geography, how it came to be published in Bologna in 1477 followed by an analysis, a list of known copies and a tabulation of the state of twenty copies. Two different states of the map of Italy, one of North Africa, one of the Mediterranean World. The book is now protected with a removable, clear archival jacket.

Price: $400.00