One of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's 2nd century map of the British Isles. Originally published in Ptolemy's Geographia. This is the second issue of the 1482 map, also printed at Ulm, which was the first woodcut map of the British Isles and the first to be printed outside Italy.
Date
1486
date QS:P571,+1486-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions
height: 350 mm (13.77 in); width: 500 mm (19.68 in)
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the
copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.