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Prima Europe tabula

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One of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's 2nd century map of the British Isles. Originally published in Ptolemy's Geographia. This is the second issue of the 1482 map, also printed at Ulm, which was the first woodcut map of the British Isles and the first to be printed outside Italy.

Creator:
Claudius Ptolemy
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Public Domain CC0 2015
Item uploaded:
18/12/2015
Date originally created:
1/1/1486
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