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IN this handsome volume there are 142 pages of letter-press in imperial folio, and 51 plates in double folio. It contains reproductions of about 160 of the rarest and most important maps printed before the year 1600. Among these are the 27 maps of Ptolemy, edited by Schweinheim-Buckinck in Rome, 1478 and 1490; maps from Berlinghieri's “Geographia,” Firenze, c. 1478; Aeschler's and Übelin's “Ptolemy” of 1513: Reisch Margarita Philosophica, of 1503 and 1515; Lafreri's “Atlas,” Romæ, c. 1570; Richard Hakluyt's “Petrus Martyr,” Paris, 1587, and “Principal Navigations,” London, 1599; maps of the world, by Ruysch, 1508, Bernardus Sylvanus, 1511, Hobmicza, 1512, Apianus, 1520, Laurentius Frisius, 1522, Robert Torne, 1527, Orontius Finacus, 1531, Grynæus, 1532, Mercator, 1538, Girava, 1556, de Judæis, 1593. We find also the first modern printed maps of the northern regions, of the Holy Land, of Central Europe (by Nicolas a Cusa), of France, of Spain, of England, of Russia; the first charts for the use of mariners published in print; 82 general maps, or maps referring to the New World; the first modern printed maps of Africa; the first map illustrating the distribution of religious creeds, &c.
Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of Cartography, with Reproductions of the most important Maps printed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
By A. E. Nordenskiöld. Translated from the Swedish original by J. A. Ekelöf and Clements R. Markham. (Stockholm, 1889.)
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Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of Cartography, with Reproductions of the most important Maps printed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Nature 41, 558 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041558a0
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