Claudius Ptolemy -- Gastaldi (Giacomo): Tabula Europae I; Angliae Hibernia Nova, 2 engraved maps, each approximately 120mm. x 170mm., Venice, [1548] [Shirley 47 and 48]. (2)

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Claudius Ptolemy -- Gastaldi (Giacomo): Tabula Europae I; Angliae Hibernia Nova, 2 engraved maps, each approximately 120mm. x 170mm., Venice, [1548] [Shirley 47 and 48]. (2)

拍品專文

The publication of Gastaldi's Ptolemaic atlas was to mark the resurgence of map printing in Venice which was now to become the centre of an active school of map-engraving for the next 50 years.