'cosmographia' by claudius ptolemaeus, an atlas containing 26 illuminated engraved maps, printed across the sheet and folded, with manuscript captions and numbers and illuminated index (bologna, dominicus de lapis, 1477); the maps illustrate the following countries: (a map of the world), the british isles, spain and portugal, france and netherlands, germany, austria, hungary, the adriatic, italy, sardinia and sicily, the balkans, greece, crete, asia minor, morocco, algeria and tunis, egypt, ethiopia, turkey, s. Russia and the caucasus, palestine, syria and iraq, persia, arabia, southern siberia and the caspian sea, china, tibet, afghanistan, baluchistan, india and ceylon. Bound in blue leather bindng with gilt-tooled border. Illuminated engraving. Date: 1477. Dimensions: Height: 442 mm; Width: 299 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Claudius Ptolemaeus. Collection: British Museum. Print, book, map, atlas (BM 1845,0825.492-517)
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