The London Colosseum
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.
Millbank
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
The most up-to-date sea atlas of the second half of the seventeenth century
De Jode’s rare map of west Asia
The London Colosseum
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.
Millbank
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
The most up-to-date sea atlas of the second half of the seventeenth century
De Jode’s rare map of west Asia
