Girolamo Ruscelli - Vincenzo Valgrisi

LN 3048

Northern Africa > Egypt, eastern Libya, Marmarika

"Marmarica nuova Tavola."

Map of Egypt with the delta of the Nile, area between the Red Sea and the eastern part of Libya. Marmarika is a name used in the Ancient world for an Egypt-Libyan coastal area.

Etching from a Geography of Ptolemy edited by Girolamo Ruscelli, printed and published by Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice 1561, 18,5 x 24,5 cm.

€ 210,-

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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