An edition of Geographia (1478)

Geographia uniuersalis, uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII

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An edition of Geographia (1478)

Geographia uniuersalis, uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII

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Language
Latin
Pages
195

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Basilae

Edition Notes

Pirckheimer's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.
"Third edition of Münster's Ptolemy, Pirckheimer's translation ... Each map contains descriptive text on the reverse, generally printed within ornamental woodcut borders, designed in the Holbein style ..."--Phillips, P.L. A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, p. 124.
Colophon: Basilae per Henrichum Petrum mense Augusto, an. M.D.XLV.
Signatures: 2a⁴, *⁶, a-c⁶, A-N⁶, 2A-B⁶ 2C⁸.
Includes 54 numbered maps on double leaves, with descriptive text on reverse of each map; paging begins with liber II; last leaf of liber I is a blank.
Includes index.
LC copy has armorial bookplate and on t.p. inscriptions in ink: Thomas Parry and Thomas Knyvett and various notations in red ink.
Phillips 368
Sabin 66487
Thacher, II, p. 41 (Americana)

Genre
Early works to 1800.
Other Titles
Geographia vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII, Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII

Classifications

Library of Congress
G1005 1545

The Physical Object

Pagination
[56], 195, [1] p., [108] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
195

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3388321M
LCCN
2004596702

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