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Geographia uniuersalis : uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptoloemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII

Ptolemy, active 2nd century, Mu˜nster, Sebastian, 1489-1552, editor, Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530, translator, Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, printer · 1540 · Basileae : Apud Henricum Petrum · 8 pictures

A 1540 Basel edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, edited by Sebastian Münster and printed by Heinrich Petri, with its woodcut maps of regions and the Holy Land. The pictures are plain black-and-white woodcut maps dense with place names, hill and river symbols, and small ship and sea-monster details, offering a designer ideas for early cartographic lettering, decorative borders and map illustration.

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