Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis, libri octo
ex Bilibaldi Pirckeymheri tralatione, sed ad Graeca & prisca exemplaria à Michaële Villanouano secundò recogniti, & locis innumeris denuò castigati ; adiecta insuper ab eodem scholia, quibus & difficilis ille primus liber nunc primum explicatur, & exoleta, urbium nomina ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur ; quinquaginta illae quoque cum ueterum tum recentium tabulae adnectuntur, uarijq[ue], incolentium ritus & mores explicantur ; accedit index locupletissiumus hactenus non uisus.
Published
1541
by
Apud Hugonem à Porta
in
Prostant Lugduni
.
Written in Latin.
Edition Notes
Adams 2226
Grässe, V, p. 501
NUC pre-1956 NP 0630439
Sabin 66485
Thacher, II, p. 37 (Americana)
Willibald Pirckheimer's Latin version of Ptolemy's Geographia.
"This is the second edition of Ptolemy edited by Villanovanus (Servetus) ... The 50 woodcut maps were printed from the same blocks as those in the editions of 1525 and 1535 ... Maps 28, 34, 49 and 50 relate partly or wholly to America, with the account of the discoveries of Columbus on the back of map 28"--Sabin.
Colophons: (leaf n4) Gaspar Trechsel excudebat Viennae. M.D.XLI.; (last leaf) Excudebat Gaspar Trechsel Viennae M.D.XLI.
Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁴ ²a-²h⁶.
Text printed in double columns; maps are numbered; 49 of the 50 maps are on double leaves, many have text printed on the recto of the initial leaf and some also have text printed on the verso of the last leaf.
Includes index.
| Genre | Early works to 1800. |
| Other Titles | Geographicae enarrationis, libri octo, Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis, libri octo |
Classifications
| Library of Congress | G1005 1541 |
The Physical Object
| Pagination | 149, [99] p., [98] leaves of plates : |
| Number of pages | 149 |
ID Numbers
| Open Library | OL3386079M |
| LC Control Number | 2004573055 |
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