La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessadrino, Nuovamente Tradotte di Greco in Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli

One of the most important effects of printing and the circulation of books in the 15^th and 16^th centuries was the new availability of knowledge about the world in relation to science, history, geography, other countries, etc. This takes many forms but one of the classics are atlases (which often took as a starting point Ptolemy’s classical geography). This is a good example of a Venetian atlas from the period produced by Girolamo Ruscelli and Vincenzo Valgrisi. The binding is contemporary and an unusual survival as it is made from Venetian red velvet.