Tavola Dell' Universale descrittione del mondo, secondo tolomeo Venice: Gio. Battista & Giorgio Galignani, c. 1597.

Notes: Text in Italian. From Magini's "Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra". The first edition of this map was printed with Latin text, with the later issues printed in Italian. "This quarto edition of Ptolemy was edited by the distinguished Italian geographer Giovanni Magini who also published, as part of the same work, the first reduced-size version of Mercator's atlas. The four world maps -- one ancient and three modern engravings -- are all by Girolamo Porro, neatly copying other earlier works.

Overall size approx 19.5cm x 28.5cm.

Condition is excellent