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The earliest obtainable printed depiction of the Americas
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
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The first atlas wholly printed in colours
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius and Bernardus SYLVANUS
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The first atlas wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first printed map to indicate Japan
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS
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The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS
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The Heber copy of the first Strassburg edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia; the first ‘modern’ atlas
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER
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“The most important of all the Ptolemy editions”, here in a contemporary binding
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER
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The geometrization of space: “the most important of all the Ptolemy editions”
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER
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First map in an edition of Ptolemy to name America
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
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First map in an edition of Ptolemy to name “America” in fine original colour
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
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First map in an edition of Ptolemy to name “America”
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
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Bordone’s Isolario
BORDONE, Benedetto di
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Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary colour, from the library of Roberto Almagia
BORDONE, Benedetto di