Secunda Africae Tabula (3 results)
Published by Strassburg, 1513
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA
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Add to basketN/A. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Woodcut. Approx. 17 1/2 x 23" sheet size. Inventory#: p295pmat.
Published by 1507]., [Rome,, 1507
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Seller: Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd, London, United KingdomDaniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd
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Add to basketNorthern Africa Double-page engraved map, on two sheets joined, on laid paper, with a watermark of a T within a circle and crossbow with a circle, a few words underlined in red ink. This map shows an area of northern Africa covering most of Tunisia and Libya, with Sicily and Sardinia in outline in the north. Map from the beautif…ul third Rome edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. "This handsome edition is a reprinting of the copper-plate maps of the 1478 [and 1490] Ptolemy [the first Rome edition by Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Buckinck, whose] maps are considered the finest Ptolemaic ones produced up to the time that the great Mercator engraved his Ptolemy of 1578. It is believed that Sweynheym was the one who first thought of applying the very new art of copper-engraving to the printing of maps, and he might have taken a hand in the actual engraving of them himself" (World Encompassed). While the Bologna edition of 1477 was the first atlas to use copperplate maps, the present series is generally regarded as superior for its clear captions, accurate projections and overall design. Also, there are indications the Bologna edition was hurried through the press: the captions were not engraved but stamped into the plates. The early Italian Ptolemys, particularly the Rome editions, are "superb testimonials of Italian craftsmanship without the picturesque but unscientific monsters of the medieval maps or the addition of the adventitious decoration of later work, relying for their beauty solely on the delicacy of their execution and the fineness of the material employed" (Tooley).
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Seller: LUX IN ART di Ermanno Bertelli, Bologna, BO, ItalyLUX IN ART di Ermanno Bertelli
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Add to basketCondition: Ottima. Incisione in rame. Carta geografica del mondo secondo la visione del Tolomeo, tratta dalla Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo a cura di Gerard Mercator, pubblicata in varie edizioni tra il 1578 ed il 1730. Questo esemplare proviene dal Theatri Geographiae Veteris del 1619 di Pieter Bertius. Carta contenente l'Egitto…, le terre cyrenaiche e le isole adiacenti nel territorio africano. Splendido esemplare in perfetto stato di conservazione. Formato: 340x430 mm.
