Anglia e Hibernia Nova. (to accompany) Ptolemeo. La geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo alessandrino . In Venetia, . per Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano . Anni x. M.D.XLVIII (1548). ; Ptolemeo. La geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo alessandrino, con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fatteui da Sebastiano Munstero alamanno, con le tauole non solamente antiche & moderne solite di stamparsi, ma altre nuoue aggiunteui di messer Iacopo Gastaldo piamontese cosmographo, ridotta in uolgare italiano da m. Pietro Andrea Mattiolo senese medico eccellentissimo. Con l'aggiunta d'infiniti nomi moderni, . fatta con grandissima diligenza da esso meser Iacopo Gastaldo, il che in nissun altro Ptolemeo si ritroua. Operueramemte non meno util che necessarid. In Venetia, . per Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano . Anni x. M.D.XLVIII (1548). ; Anglia e Hibernia Nova ; Anglia and Hibernia Nova. (to accompany) Ptolemeo. The geography of Claudio Ptolemeo alessandrino. In Venetia, for Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano. Years x. M.D.XLVIII (1548). Ptolemeo. The geography of Claudio Ptolemeo alessandrino, with some coments added by Sebastiano Munstero Alamanno, with tauole not only ancient or modern print-out, but other nuoue added by Messer Iacopo Gastaldo piamontese cosmographo, reduced to Italian uolgare by Pietro Andrea Mattiolo senese very excellent doctor. With the addition of unfinished modern names, made with great diligence by the Mier Mier Iacopo Gastaldo, which in another Ptolemeo restores itself. Operueramemte no less util necessary. In Venetia, for Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano. Years x. M.D.XLVIII (1548). Anglia and Hibernia Nova

Engraved modern map of British Isles. Shows cities, towns, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. ; The first pocket atlas and the first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in Italian, also the first engraved Ptolemy edition since Berlingheri in 1482. Maps engraved on copper by Giacomo Gastaldi, the foremost Italian cartographer of the 16th century, marking a turning point in the history of cartography, mostly based on those of Munster woodcuts in the Latin edition of 1540. Nordenskiold noted that "Copper engraving was reintroduced into the service of cartography" as it was the first atlas in the 16th century to use this process. Maps are accompanied by descriptive text printed on the backs. It is likely the most important atlas published between Waldseemuller's 1513 Ptolemy and Ortelius's Theatrum of 1570. The translation was made by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the famous botanist. The atlas contains 60 double page copperplate maps, 26 of Ptolemy, supplemented by 34 Modern maps, woodcut title page, illustrated page of "Ptolemeo degli astronomi prencipe ." and text. Bound in contemporary limp vellum covers with title inked on spine. Most of the Ptolemy and Modern maps showing illustrations of ships, sea monsters, fishes, trees, figures, landmarks and place names. Every where in this atlas are indications of Gastaldi's effort to use the most up-to-date geographical information available. Atlas includes the first engraved maps of part of North America and South America, Tierra Nueva map of the East coast of North America from Florida to Lavrador, is considered the earliest map to focus on the East Coast of North America. Nordenskiold calls it "the very first atlas of the New World". It also has the earliest maps to reflect Verrazano and Cartier's explorations. One of the two world maps in the atlas, the "Universle Novo is the reduction of an extremely rare map published just two years earlier that Tooley described as "one of the most important map of the sixteenth century." Borri provides a thorough analysis of ...