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Cartography from Ruscelli

Girolamo Ruscelli (1500-1566), using the pseudonyms Allessio Piemontese and a Latin version thereof - Alexius Pedemontanus - typified the Renaissance ideal, being a physician, alchemist and cartographer. He published numerous books which were translated into Latin, German, French and Welsh - one of those publications was a version of Ptolemy's Geographia.

Published in just one edition by Vincenzo Valgrisi in Venice, this copy of Ptolemæi Typus shows the characteristic feature of this unique plate from the 1562 edition - the platemark extends beyond the top of the sheet. That feature resulted from two maps being printed from the same plate with the resulting sheet cut in half for binding.

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