Item details: Aegyptus
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£ 125.00
MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio
Aegyptus
Imprint: Venice, 1596
Edition: First Edition
140 x 180 mm., in good condition.
This is a 'modern' map of Egypt and the lower reaches of the Nile from the first edition of Magini's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography'. This is distinguished by the lack of text below the map. Magini was from Padua and would later publish an atlas of Italy. The maps in this work are expertly engraved by Girolamo Porro and are particularly detailed and attractive. There were later editions in 1598 and 1622. Shirley 'Atlases in BL' T.Ptol-12a; Nordenskiold 223.
Stock number:4864.