PTOLEMY (PTOLEMAEUS) - BERLINGHIERI, FRANCESCO. Tabula Decima d Asia. (Florence, Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, before September 1482).
Double-page engraved map in two sheets joined, title above, c. 352x490 mm.
Ptolemaic depiction of part of India, including the Ganges delta.
Framed.
The map comes from the third Italian printed edition of Ptolemy. The third printed atlas, and the first printed in the Italian language.
Francesco Berlinghieri (1440-1501), Florentine engraver. His edition of Ptolemy, was first published by Nicolas Laurentii in 1482, titled: Geographia. In Questo Volume Si Congengono Septe Giornate Della Geographia ...
Probably bought from Richard Arkway in 2008.
H *2825; Nordenskiöld 3; Shirley 9.
Nordenskiöld, 198, #24.
