Nona Europe Tabula The Balkans from: Cosmographia

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

$24,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A beautiful incunable map of the Balkans, including Constantinople, 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 is one of the earliest obtainable maps to picture the Balkans. It is from the 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, printed by

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