Girolamo Ruscelli - Vincenzo Valgrisi

LN 1948

Eastern Europe > Sarmatia, European part between the Vistula and Don River, the Baltic and Black Sea

"Tabula Europae VIII."

Map of the European part of Sarmatia the Vistula and Don River, the Baltic and Black Sea (Sea of Azov), with regions of the countries of Poland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Belorussia, and Russia.

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

€ 250,-

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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