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Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis libri octo / ex Biblibaldi Pirckeymheri tralatione, sed ad graeca & prisca exemplaria à Michaële Villanouano iam primum recogniti ; adiecta insuper ab eodem scholia, quibus exolata urbium nomina ad nostri seculi more[m] exponuntur ; quinquaginta illae quoque cum ueterum tum recentium tabulae adnectuntur, uarijq[uam], incolentium ritus & mores explicantur.

Accession number
PML 26864
Creator
Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Published
Lugduni : Ex officina Melchioris et Gasparis Trechsel fratrum, 1535.
Credit line
Purchased in 1929.
Notes
The maps are the same as in the 1522 and 1525 editions.
Maps 28, 34, 49, 50 pertain to America.
"The part this book played in the condemnation of its editor, [Michael] Servetus, has given it fame ... In connection with a map of the Holy Land [map 41] ... was a statement that it was not such a fertile land as was generally believed, since modern travellers reported it barren ... this paragraph ... was simply reproduced from the editions of 1522 and 1525. The next edition (1541), however, omitted it."--Winsor, J. A bibliog. of Ptolemy's Geographia, p. 17.
"Index Ptolomaei copiosissimus": 48 leaves at end has special title page, signatures: A-F⁸.
50 double page woodcut maps with their tables and descriptions; woodcut ornaments and borders to many pages. On leaf 128b Durer's armillary sphere.
The descriptions of maps 38, 39, 42, 44-45, and 49 are not printed; the pages are blank.
Description
149, [2], [75] p. : maps ; 41 cm (fol)
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Sept. 1929.
Binding
16th century, German blind-rolled calf over wooden boards. One roll includes the Saxon arms, and is dated 1540. 2 clasps.
Classification
Department