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100 0 $aPtolemy,$dactive 2nd century.
240 10 $aGeographia.$lLatin
245 10 $aGeographia uniuersalis :$buetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptoloemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII /$cquorum primus noua translatione Pirckheimheri et accessione commentarioli illustrior quam hactenus fuerit, redditus est ; reliqui cum Graeco & alijs uetustis exe[m]plaribus collati, in infinitis fere locis castigatiores facti sunt ; addita sunt insuper scholia, quibus exoleta urbium, montium, fluuiorumq[ue] nomina ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur ; succedunt tabulae Ptolemaic[a]e opera Sebastiani Munsteri nouo paratae modo ; his adiectae sunt plurim[a]e nouae tabulae, moderna[m] orbis faciem literis & pictura explicantes, inter quas quaedam antehac Ptolemaeo non fuerunt additae ; ultimo annexum est compendium geographic[a]e descriptionis, in quo uarij gentium & regionum ritus & mores explicantur ; pr[a]efixus est quoq[ue] uniuerso operii index memorabiliu[m] populorum, ciuitatum, fluuiorum, montium, terrarum, lacuum &c.
246 3 $aGeographia vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII
260 $aBasileae :$bApud Henricum Petrum,$cmense Martio anno MDXL [1540]
300 $a[56], 155, [193], 157-195, [1] p. :$bill. ;$c32 cm (fol.)
500 $aSignatures: 2áþ *́œ a-ćœ A-Ńœ 1-48℗ø 2A-2B́œ 2Ćı.
510 4 $aWilberforce, E. A list of editions of Ptolemy's Geography, 1475-1730,$c page 19
520 $a"A new and important edition, revised and edited by the geographer Sebastian Mu˜nster, who designed the maps anew, and added an appendix ... The 48 double-page woodcut maps, sometimes colored, are accompanied by descriptions printed on the first leaf of each, within ornamental borders designed in Holbein's style ..."--Wilberforce.
590 $aBoston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in modern brown morocco and papier tourniquet. The title is stamped in gilt on the spine. The bookplate of the BPL Charlotte Harris Fund is present on the front pastedown. An early inscription, reading, "Lichtervelde" is present on the title page, as is the perforation stamp of the Library. "PTOLE" is inscribed on the fore-edge in an early hand. The maps are tipped-onto stubs made of medieval manuscript waste.
650 0 $aGeography$vEarly works to 1800.
655 7 $aManuscript waste (Binding)$2rbbin
655 7 $aInscriptions (Provenance)$2rbprov
655 7 $aPerforation stamps (Provenance)$2rbprov
655 7 $aBookplates (Provenance)$2rbprov
700 1 $aMu˜nster, Sebastian,$d1489-1552,$eeditor.
700 1 $aPirckheimer, Willibald,$d1470-1530,$etranslator.
700 1 $aPetri, Heinrich,$d1508-1579,$eprinter.
752 $aSwitzerland$dBasel.
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