Woodcut, mm 320x540, original colour. One of the earliest printed maps ever produced. Claudius Ptolemaeus (known as Ptolemy) was a roman cartographer of the II century a.C. He records the Roman World and his maps are best displayed in the famous maps engraved for Leonhardt Holle's edition of "Geographia" published, in two editions in Ulm, southern Germany. The atlas was the first published outside Italy, the first in woodblock. This map shows the area east of the Caspian and north of India, identified by their ancient names - Scithia, Bactriana, Sogdiana and Sacha Regio. Restoration at centerfold, otherwise a very good example of the earliest period of cartographic history.