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    "title": "Oceani occidetalis seu terre nove tabula",
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        "Includes names of places and natural features.",
        "Descriptive text within ornamental borders on verso.",
        "Appears in the author's Geographia, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus. Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat, anno a Christi Natiuitate 1525 tertio Kal[endas] Apriles.",
        "Text in Latin.",
        "Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.",
        "Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/claudiiptolemaei00ptol"
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