Quinta Europe Tabula

A year after the Bolognese edition of the Geographia, two German travelling typographers, Schweynheim e Buckinck, printed in Rome a new editino of this atlas.

The book contains one extra map, but all the others have kept the original design created by Crivelli, becoming less pictorial and more essential, especially under a cartogtaphical point of view. Very likely, the Codice Ebneriano, kept nowadays in the Public Library of New York, might have been the source of inspiration for this map, in which can be seen all the main characteristics of the Ptolemaic model.

The maps bear the same orographic and hydrographic details that can be found in the Codice Ebner, with the same mistakes in names and positions. The Roman edition of Geographia has been reissued in 1490, 1507 and 1508.

Copperplate, printed on two contemporary laid paper sheets joined together, small repairs perfectly executed, in general in very good condition. Trapezoidal projection, very rare.