Ptolemaeus, Claudius [Claudius Ptolemy]; and Martin Waldseemüller, cartographer:

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GEOGRAPHIE OPUS NOVISSIMA TRADUCTIONE E GRECO CUM ARCHETYPIS CASTIGATISSIME PRESSUM: CETERIS ANTE LUCUBRATORUM MULTO PRESTANTIUS. From the collection of R. David Parsons. A fine copy in a contemporary pigskin binding of "the most important of all the Ptolemy editions; its supplement of 'new' maps marked the beginning of modern map-making. The new maps, based on contemporary observations, were published alongside the long-authoritative Ptolemaic models whose deficiencies were clearly recognized" (Streeter). The work contains the first map of America to appear in an atlas, and among printed books, is preceded only by the map that should accompany the 1511 Peter Martyr (of which Burden was only able to locate ten copies worldwide). This masterful atlas is one of the most important cartographical works ever published. The first part of this atlas consists of twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps, taken from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy, or perhaps the manuscript atlas of Nicolaus Germanus upon which the Ulm Ptolemy was based. Work on the twenty maps in the Supplement began around the year 1505 by geographers Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, and was partially funded by Duke Rene of Lorraine. The accompanying text was completed a bit later, and in 1508 all of the materials for the atlas passed into the hands of two Strassburg citizens, Jacobus Eszler and Georgius Ubelin, at whose cost the work was completed in 1513.The atlas is a notable Americanum as it contains the map of the world known

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