Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini
Ptolemy's Geographia, a 1562 Venice edition by Vincenzo Valgrisi, edited by Giuseppe Moleti and translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, a scholarly atlas of world geography for learned readers. The pictures are engraved maps with dense hatched sea, fine dotted coastlines, Latin place names and lettered grid borders, offering a designer ideas for antique cartographic layouts, compass-style framing and stippled texture.
