Girolamo Ruscelli - Vincenzo Valgrisi

LN 0348

Western Europe > France, Belgium, the Rhine and the Pyrenees

"Tabula Europae III"

Map of Western Europe with France, Belgium, the Rhine, and the Pyrenees. In the style of Ptolemy.

Etching from a Geography of Ptolemy edited by Girolamo Ruscelli, printed and published by Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice 1561, 19 x 25 cm.

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Maps by Italian mapmakers of the 16th century are worked out very fine and are famous for their elegant design. Remained copies are quite rare. Zögner, Imago Germaniae, p 14.
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