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The hunting ground of the Calpe
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.
“Nothing was more important for [ancient] Geography than to know the size of the Earth, and nothing seemed more difficult to undertake” (Cassini)
The Earl of Lonsdale’s copy of Thompson’s Alcedo
