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Creator: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 156
Title: Orbis descriptio [cartographic material].
Scale: Scale [ca.1:160,000,000]
Publisher: [Venetia : Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561].
Date: 1561
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map ; 2 hemispheres, each 12.9 cm. in diam., on sheet 22.7 x 30.7 cm.
Notes: Double hemispherical map of the world. One of two 'modern' world maps that appearred in Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia'. Engraved on copper it shows a finely detailed double hemisphere map of the world, the first to appear in an atlas. Possibly adapted from the oval projection used for Gastaldi's larger world map. Relief is shown pictorially.

Text on verso.

Plate 94 from: La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / Ptolemy. Venetia : Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561.

Shirley, 110; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm149
Subjects: World maps -- Early works to 1800.
World -- 1561 -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP RM 149
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm149