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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
A rare map of Germany published in Giacomo Gastaldi’s influential edition of Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’. It is also the world’s first printed pocket atlas, and the first to use a mechanism to hold the plates in position so that the impression was good and level. Nordenskiold Collection 214, Phillips 369.
GASTALDI, Giacomo
Tabula Europae IIII
Venice, 1548
130 x 175 mm. Centrefold split lower third restored, otherwise fine.
Stock number: 3040
SOLD