London, 1926. The British Museum and Bernard Quaritch, Second edition, Revised.
Hardcover. Cloth backed printed boards, tall folio (13.5 x 9.75 in.), 17 pages plus folding map.

The volume includes a facsimile of the 1506 Italian world map which was the first world map to incorporate Columbus' discoveries . The map was re-discovered in 1922 and was acquired by the British Museum. The introduction and notes are by F.P. Sprent, Assistant Keeper and superintendent of the Map Room of the Museum.

Giovanni Matteo Contarini (1452-1507) was a cartographer and likely a member of a prominent Venetian family. In 1506, Contarini created a world map that Francesco Rosselli later engraved.The Contarini-Rosselli map is the first world map to have Columbus' discoveries incorporated. It was first discovered in 1922 and currently resides in the British Library. On the map, Contarini refers to himself as "famed in the Ptolemaean art" but no other maps by him have surfaced.

In a titular inscription describing his map, Contarini called the land later called America by Martin Waldseemüller the Antipodes. The inscription, placed to the west of this land said:

The world and all its seas on a plane map, Europe, Lybia [i.e., Africa], Asia, and the Antipodes, the poles and zones and sites of places, the parallels for the climes of the mighty globe, lo! Giovanni Matteo Contarini, famed in the Ptolemæan art, has compiled and marked it out. Whither away? Stay, traveller, and behold new nations and a new-found world.
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CONDITION: Good. Ex library copy with a nice library plate on the front pastedown and blind embossed stamp on the front endpaper and final text page. The final end paper has small remnants of removed label ; there are no other library markings
(The covers have moderate wear at edges and corners, light wear at spine ends, boards have some soil and discoloration , The Contents are complete and clean. The Map is complete, intact and clean but has some archival tape at the center of the folds to prevent a split from starting.)