Geographiae...

Literature

Leo Bagrow, History of
Cartography, London, 1964, p.126
Henry Harrisse, Bibliotheca
Americana vetustissima, Paris, 74
The Thomas Winthrop Streeter
Collection of Americana, Sotheby’s
New York, 1966, Lot 6
Peabody Institute, The World
Encompassed, Baltimore,1952, 56

Description / Expertise

47 woodcut maps with contemporary
hand-colour, blind-stamped half calf
over wooden boards decorated
with foliate design
Published Strassburg, Johannes
Schott, 12 March 1513
This is a previously unrecorded early variant of the first
modern atlas with two maps in early proof states and the
earliest map devoted entirely to the New World. It has been
described as ‘The most important of all the Ptolemy editions’
(Streeter Sale, op.cit.).