Tabula Moderna Hispanie Iberian Peninsula from: Cosmographia

by c., Cartographer Ad, Cartographer, fl., Woodcutter

$35,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A beautiful incunable map of Spain and Portugal from the 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. This map is from the first atlas to be printed north of the Alps and the first with woodcut maps. Here with fine period coloring, including lapis lazuli blue seas, not the ochre color of later editions. This rare incunable map is one of the earliest to picture modern Spain and Portugal. It is from the 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, printed by Lienhart Holle and

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