"[Facsimile] Cosmographia Roma 1478 ", Ptolemy
Subject: References, Facsimile Atlas
Period: 1966 (published)
Publication:
Color: Black & White
Size:
12.1 x 17.8 inches
30.7 x 45.2 cm
Cosmographia Roma 1478 is from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Series of Atlases in Facsimile Second Series - Volume VI and is an excellent edition both in regard to the scholarship of the text and the accuracy of the maps, finely engraved after the Greek manuscript of Ptolemy preserved in Vienna. 260 pages including 27 double-page maps and a bibliographical note by R.A. Skelton. Folio, hardbound in tan cloth with gilt insignia on front cover, title on spine, and a dust jacket.
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Condition: A
Contents are clean. Cover corners slightly bumped. Dust jacket has some edge tears and shelf wear.
