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RSS FeedsDaniel Crouch Rare Books to bring six different editions of Ptolemy`s `Geographia` to Frieze Masters
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19 august 2017 04:31:55

 
Daniel Crouch Rare Books to bring six different editions of Ptolemy`s `Geographia` to Frieze Masters
(Artdaily.org)
 


Daniel Crouch Rare Books will bring a collection of six Ptolemy atlases, tracing exploration during the Age of Discovery. The work of Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek geographer and mathematician, was widely read during the Renaissance, and inspired a new generation of European cartography. The Ptolemy atlases represent not only the finest classical geography at the time, but also the latest developments in contemporary cartography: in them is the first map to show Japan; the first map to name America; and the earliest obtainable depiction of the Americas. The earliest Ptolemy edition on the stand dates from 1482; it is the third printed atlas ever made, and the first in the Italian language (£400,000). The 1511 Venice edition is notable not only for being the first atlas wholly printed in colour, but also for incorporating the first printed map to indicate Japan, and to show it correctly as an island (£150,000). The collection co


 
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