Geographia

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Geographia

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius Cosmographia.

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The first atlas printed in Germany, the first atlas made from woodcut blocks, the first to contain hand-coloured maps and the first mapping of the world by a named cartographer

£750,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1482

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius In hoc Operae haec continétur Geographia Cl. Ptholemaei a plurimis uiris utriusqß. linguae doctiss. emendata:& cum Archetypo graeco ab ipsis collata...

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The earliest obtainable printed depiction of the Americas

£500,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1507.

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum.

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“The most important of all the Ptolemy editions”, here in a contemporary binding

£600,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 1513

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS' Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo.

The first map in an atlas to name America, and Ptolemy’s third projection

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS', 1541.

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum.

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The first atlas map devoted entirely to the New World – “the most important of all the Ptolemy editions”

£356,535

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 12th March, 1513.