Ptolemeo La geografia

Ptolemy, active 2nd century · 1548 · In Venetia : Per Gioa[n] Baptista Pedrezano. Co'l priuilegio dell'illustriss[imo] Senato Veneto · 6 pictures

Ptolemy's La geografia, printed in Venice in 1548 by Gioan Battista Pedrezano under Venetian Senate privilege, is a Renaissance atlas of world geography for scholars and map readers. Its pages show copperplate-engraved maps with dense coastlines, fine hatched sea lines, Latin and Italian place names, and a globe-style projection, offering designers models of early cartographic lettering, border ornament and wave patterning.

Columbus, Christopher · Geography, Ancient · Geography, Ancient -- Maps · Geography · Mathematical geography · America -- Geography · America -- Geography -- Maps · America -- Discovery and exploration -- Italian · Imprint 1548

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