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“A most dismal description of New Holland” (Brown)
Fine atlas of Southern Holland in full original colour
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
‘Cotton Diplomacy’ starts to fail
That is the question
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America.
A separately-published world map, issued prior to its inclusion in the first “atlas” to be so called
Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding
“an elegant synthesis of science and art” (Woods)
A rare Mediterranean ‘Straights Book’
