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    1 : 160000000 Description This is a 1561 first plate issue of Girolamo Ruscelli s double hemisphere map of the world. It is the earliest acquirable world map in this format, and is the first such to appear in a printed atlas. Like most maps in Ruscelli’s Ptolemy, the geographic details were based on Giacomo Gastaldi s (1500 - 1566) 1548 Ptolemy. Here, the double-hemispherical projection transforms this map into fully new composition. Amongst printed maps, it is predated only by the unacquirable 1555 Georgio Sideri Calapoda (fl. 1537–1565) map. The MapThe map is oriented to the north, with the three parts of the old world in the right hemisphere and the fourth part of the world - the Americas - dominating the left hemisphere. Some geographical elements appear to be derived from Gastaldi s 1546 and 1548 world maps - but unlike Ruscelli s

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