Text-border with grotesque ornament in style of hans holbein; oculus with hapsburg coat of arms above with harpies, griffins, and vase; horizonal and vertical straps of grotesques, printed from one block; on verso a map of switzerland (by holbein?); illustrations to ptolemy, 'geographia universalis', basel: heinrich petri, 1545. Woodcuts and letterpress. Date: 1545. Dimensions: Height: 254 mm (Map); ; Height: 300 mm (Sheet); Height: 205 mm (border); Width: 138 mm; Width: 336 mm; Width: 387 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Ptolemy. Collection: British Museum. Print, book-illustration, map (BM 1865,0114.1036 1)
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