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This is a 1513 Strasbourg edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia, printed by Johann Schott and edited by Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, dedicated to Emperor Maximilian and drawing on Greek sources. The pictures are hand-coloured woodcut maps with ruled borders, degree scales, and wave-patterned seas, showing coastlines, rivers, mountain ranges and sea names in dense Latin lettering, useful for designers seeking antique cartographic linework, compass-rose framing and muted green-and-ochre palettes.
