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From the Ulm edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia printed by Lienhart Holle. This is a landmark map, being the first printed modern map of Palestine. In the same year 1482 a Florence edition of the atlas appeared although we only know that it appeared in the summer. We do know the date of publication of this work, the 16 July 1482. Laor 603. Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps, no. 210, plate 65; Dalché (2007) ‘The Reception of Ptolemy’s Geography (End of the Fourteenth to Beginning of the Sixteenth Century’ in ‘The History of Cartography’ volume 3 part 1 pp. 285-364.
HOLLE, Lienhart

Tabula Moderna Terre Sancte

Ulm, 1482-[86]
250 x 530 mm. Full early wash colour. Superb condition, two small areas of foxing not affecting the map.
Stock number: 6618

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