Lot Essay
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.
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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)