Reger, Johann
Johann Reger (fl. 1480-1499) was a German printer living and working in Ulm at the end of the 15th century. While most of his output was not illustrious, he was employed by Venetian investor and patron Justus de Albano to print an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia using the blocks and typeset produced by Lienhart Holle for the 1482 edition of that work. (Holle had mortgaged this printing material to Albano, who subsequently seized it for nonpayment.) Reger completed this Albano edition of Ptolemy in 1486.
Roman-Era Egypt, as drafted by a Native Son.
Tercia Affrice Tabula.
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This is a superb example, in rich original color, of one of the earliest printed maps of any part of Africa - this one focusing on the region of Libya and Egypt extending to the Red Sea, according to the second-century knowledge of Claudius Ptolemy. It appeared in the Ulm Ptolemy, the first such work printed north of the Alps, in 1482 and 1486. It is the first map of the region by someone who lived there. (more details)