An unusually beautiful example of Reger’s re-issue of the Ulm Ptolemy

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[Untitled World Map].

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Johannes SCHNITZER OF ARMSZHEIM
[Ulm,
Johan Reger for Justus de Albano,
1486].
Double-page woodcut map of the world, with very fine contemporary hand-colour in full.
420 by 590mm. (16.5 by 23.25 inches).
14992

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notes:

notes:

The second printing of Johannes Schnitzer of Armszheim's map of the world.

First issued by Holl of Ulm in 1482, and showing Greenland and Scandinavia in a Ptolemaic map for the first time. Unfortunately, the exorbitant cost of publishing such a lavish book resulted in Holl's bankruptcy, and Johan Reger taking on the production in the same city with an edition of "about a thousand copies" (Campbell). Remarkably, about 120 examples of the two editions survive intac...

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bibliography:

Campbell 179; Shirley 10.