Buckinck, Arnold (sold)
Arnold Buckinck or Bucking (fl. 1478) was a German book printer in Rome. He is remembered only for the completion and publication of Konrad Sweynheim's edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Cosmographia, a work Buckinck completed on October 10, 1478. This edition was one of the first to contain maps engraved in copper. These plates were used by Petrus de Turre for his 1490 edition of Cosmographia and again by Bernardino Vitali in 1507 and 1508.
Earliest Acquirable Printed Map of Arabia.
Sexta Asiae Tabula.
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A foundational work of Renaissance cartography: this is the first acquirable printed map of the Arabian Peninsula. Appearing in the Rome edition of Ptolemy, in its 1478 printing, it is preceded only by the unacquirable 1477 Bologna Ptolemy. Ptolemy's 2nd-century innovation of representing the three-dimensional world on a grided mathematical projection provided the basis of all modern cartography. Of all the early printed versions of Ptolemy's maps, those produced for the Rome edition are considered the finest until Mercator's 1578 edition. The present example is embellished with attractive old hand color. (more details)
Finest Early Copperplate Map of the World.
Untitled Map of the World.
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A foundational work of Renaissance cartography: this is the first, acquirable, printed map attempting a measured representation of the known world. The world map from the Rome edition of Ptolemy, in its 1478 printing it is preceded only by the unacquirable 1477 Bologna Ptolemy, the Medieval mappamundi of the Rudimentum Novitorum and the schematic 1472 Isidorus T-O map. Ptolemy's second-century innovation in representing the three-dimensional world with a grid on a projection, using mathematical methods to produce an accurate map, provided the basis of all modern cartography. Of all the early, printed versions of Ptolemy's maps, those produced for the Rome edition are considered to be the finest until Mercator's 1578 edition of the work. (more details)