The First Atlas Wholly Printed in Colours, Incorporating the First Printed Map to Indicate Japan
The First Atlas Wholly Printed in Colours, Incorporating the First Printed Map to Indicate Japan
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernadus SYLVANUS, 1511
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Author: PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernadus SYLVANUS
Publication place: Venice
Publisher: Jacobus Pentius de Lencho
Publication date: 1511.
Physical description: Folio atlas (425 by 292mm), bookplate to verso of initial blank leaf, title in red with manuscript ownership inscription, poem on verso printed in red and black, 6pp preliminary text printed in red and black, 115pp text printed in red and black with four woodcut and letterpress diagrammatic illustrations, manuscript notes throughout in margins of text in same hand as ownership inscription, small area of abrasion damage to colophon, infilled with ink facsimile, 28 woodcut maps printed in red and black (each double-page with all but the final world map in two sections on facing pages), sixteenth century red vellum, remnants of old ties, japp fore-edges.Collation: [4]; A8, B‑H6 (first leaf of G unsigned), I8 (first leaf unsigned), 28 maps.
Inventory reference: 12892
Provenance
1. Manuscript ownership inscription of Francisci de Chiapanis [Francisco Chiappano?], dated in Venice in 1736. The owner has signed himself “sacerdotis Bass”, presumably a priest at the church of San Basso.
2. Bookplate of J.H. van der Veen. The bookplate artist, Anton Pieck (1895–1987) was active in the Netherlands in the twentieth century. The owner may have been Johan Herman van der Veen (1926–2006), a Dutch politician and lawyer.