Published 1599 AD. Taken from volume one of La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Venice, translated by Girolamo Ruscelli and Gioseffo Rosaccio as 'Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano'; comprising an original double-page with Latin text relating to the map to reverses with hand-coloured folding map titled GALLIA NOVA TABVLA, showing the region of Gaul (including modern France, Belgium, the Netherlands and with parts of Germany, Italy and Spain) with adjacent coast of south-west England, the border and hills coloured green, the sea and rivers deep blue, with red underlining to most place names. See British Museum, General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955, pp.334-344 for information on the issues of this work. 6 grams, 33 x 23cm (13 x 9"). Ex Swiss collection; purchased Italy before 1980. Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100-170AD) was born in Alexandria and became one of the foremost scholars of his day as a geographer (he is sometimes known as the 'Father of Geography) and mathematician with his works being important for centuries after his death; in the Medieval period, his atlas was first published in Bologna in 1477; an incomplete copy of the 1561 edition containing fifty (of sixty-four) maps was sold by Christies, 10 October 2013, lot 68 and achieved a hammer price of £10,000. [No Reserve]

Fine condition.