CL. Ptolemaei Geographiae Libri Octo

Mercator, Gerhard, Ptolemaeus, Claudius, Mercator, Arnold, Mercator, Johannes · 1584 · Typis Godefridi Kempensis · 25 pictures

Ptolemy's Geographia, eight books of world-mapping printed in 1584 at Cologne by Gerhard Mercator's family, with Arnold and Johannes Mercator, for scholars and map readers. Its pictures are engraved map frames and cartouches, with ornate scrollwork, putti and grid-marked coordinate borders, offering a designer ideas for decorative title panels and framed label work.

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