BERLINGHIERI, FRANCECSO DI NICOLO.

TABULA PRIMA DE ASIA. [FLORENCE, 1482].

      Double-page engraved map (39 x 53 cm). A fine example of Berlinghieri's map of Turkey. Rare map, from the third printed atlas and the first in Italian. The Ptolemaic regional maps are drawn on Marinus' plane projection; and although not generally considered an edition of Ptolemy, the maps are the only examples of Ptolemy's maps to be drawn on the original projection, with equidistant meridians and parallels.