Item details: Marmarica Nuova Tavola
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£ 125.00
RUSCELLI, Girolamo
Marmarica Nuova Tavola
Imprint: Venice, 1561-[98]
190 x 245 mm., in good condition.
This modern map displays the north eastern coast of Africa including the River Nile and Egypt in the east. Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's "Geography" included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuto. First published in 1561 this example is in its third state as published in the 1598 edition. Nordenskiold 227; Shirley 'Atlases in the BL' T.Ptol-10f.
Stock number:4868.