@admin: Hi,I am a regular viewer of your posts . I have a suggestion that please make separate albums for different type of posts ,so later if somebody want to see any earlier post he/she can go to that particular album.It will then be easier to search. To start ,you can make separate albums for books and image (information) posts.

Excellent book

This is indeed a rare book.

Thanks for posting this!

Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy's Geografia edited and extended by Giuseppe Rosaccio published by the Hires of M. Sessa in 1598 and 1599. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.367839743283938.88990.100001737461941&type=3

Maps have always fascinated me...maybe as one of the oldest forms of human communication they ultimately express the ways we attempt to understand the world..If we look at the origin we will see that there is a direct relation with the growth of human awareness of space or as we might say a sense of geography.....the paleolithic hunters without a written language nor a concept of numbers beyond two or three were adept at setting out the topographic features pertaining to mode of life and those along... with the patterns incised on Australian aboriginal shields recalling the movements of ancestors in the dream time of long ago are perhaps the cartographic material of the first kind.