Ruscelli’s Map of Ptolemaic Germany
SKU: 7988
£150.00
Title:
Ruscelli’s Map of Ptolemaic Germany
Date of publication:
1598-99
Printed Measurement:
19 x 26 cm
Publisher(s):
Colour:
black and white
Mapmaker(s):
Tabula Europae IIII
Copper engraving, 19 x 26 cm, black and white as issued, Italian text on verso; a map of Ptolemaic Germany and Denmark, illustrated with depictions of elk, an aurochs and a pair of ‘bison’ which resemble reindeer; from the fourth edition of Ruscelli’s Italian translation of the Geographia.