Martin Waldseemuller (1470-1520)/ Claudius Ptolemy (ca. 100 CE-ca. 170 CE), “Tabula Moderna Prime Partis Aphricae,” Strassburg, ca. 1513. This hand colored map of northern Africa is from Waldseemuller’s influential 1513 edition of Ptolemy’s “Geographia,” considered by many to be the first modern atlas.

Sheet; height: 16 1/2 in x width: 23 in.