Rare and costly Ptolemaic prize discovered in Turin

Estimated at €50,000 but sold for €405,000 (£346,275) in a sale held in Turin by was a 1482 edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia.

Also known as the Geographia, and produced c.150BC in Alexandria but drawing on an earlier, now lo…

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