The first edition of Girolamo Ruscelli’s modern map of the British Isles published in the ‘Geographia’, 1561. The cartography is directly derived from George Lily’s exceedingly rare map published in Rome, 1546, considered the first modern map of the British Isles. Girolamo Ruscelli (c.1504-66) edited the Latin text for this quarto edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s classic work ‘Geographia’ which included newly engraved copper plates by the brothers Giulio (fl.1540-88) and Livio (c.1520-76) Sanuto. Nordenskiold (1979) 216; Shirley (1991) 68; Shirley (2004) T.Ptol 10a; Tooley’s Dictionary.