PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-170) -- SYLVANUS, Bernard editor. Sexta Asiae Tabula [Arabia]. [Venice: Jacobus Pentius de Lencho, 1511.] Double-page woodcut map printed in black, topoynms printed in red by the use of letter punches (the whole sometime removed from backing and skimmed, removing all but faint traces of the maps to verso, the eastern half skimmed extremely thinly, the whole laid down on japan, tiny losses to centrefold), 402 x 550mm.

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-170) -- SYLVANUS, Bernard editor. Sexta Asiae Tabula [Arabia]. [Venice: Jacobus Pentius de Lencho, 1511.] Double-page woodcut map printed in black, topoynms printed in red by the use of letter punches (the whole sometime removed from backing and skimmed, removing all but faint traces of the maps to verso, the eastern half skimmed extremely thinly, the whole laid down on japan, tiny losses to centrefold), 402 x 550mm.

EARLIEST KNOWN USE OF TWO-COLOUR PRINTING FOR MAPS. Sylvanus' edition of Ptolemy was a unique attempt to incorporate corrections and revisions directly into the Ptolemaic projections, and thus to create a modern Ptolemaic vision of the world. Nordenskiöld 204 [18].