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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
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A fine early modern (non-Ptolemaic) depiction of West Africa. Girolamo Ruscelli’s edition of Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’ published in Venice by Ziletti included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuto. First published in 1561 this example is in its second state as published in the 1574 edition. Norwich, O.I. 313; Nordenskiold 220; Shirley ‘Atlases in the BL’ T.Ptol-10e.