Claudius Ptolemy: Cosmographia

Masterly maps in golden frames for the King of Aragon: a splendid Ptolemaic atlas with uniquely beautiful land and sea charts in vibrant colors as a testimony to early Italian Renaissance cartography

The last large map collection before the discovery of the Americas: Claudius Ptolemy's ancient knowledge in masterfully illuminated charts with magnificent ornaments, inspired by Nero's golden palace

Created almost 1,500 years after Ptolemy: a revised new edition of the ancient standard work in a brilliant cartographic manuscript by the Vatican astronomer Nicolaus Germanus for Pope Paul III.

The masterpiece of the ancient cartographer Claudius Ptolemy in the dress of the Italian Renaissance: exquisite maps of land and sea adorned with gold and silver for the pomp-loving king of Aragón

The basis for the modern development of German cartography: a beautifully illustrated codex printed in Ulm and based on an Italian manuscript of Ptolemy’s Geography from Wolfegg Castle

Ptolemy's ancient standard work on the geography of the Old World in the golden garb of humanism: one of the most sumptuous Latin copies of the famous atlas with 30 opulently illuminated maps