A reissue of the 1598 edition with a new title page setting.--BM STC Italian.

"The fourth edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy, revised, enlarged, and edited by Gioseppe Rosaccio. It was first issued with both title-pages dated "M D XCVIII," ... The 69 double-page copperplate maps were printed with the text, and all but seven were from the same plates as those in the Italian editions of 1561, 1564, and 1574, and in the Latin edition of 1562."--Wilberforce.

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Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.

"Descrittione della geografia vniuersale ... con discorsi fatti da Gioseppe Rosaccio ..." on 144 leaves; "Espositioni, et introduttioni vniuersale di Girolamo Ruscelli sopra la Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino" on 28 leaves, each separate title pages, 69 folded map plates included in the foliation.

Includes indexes.

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 543

Wilberforce, E. A list of editions of Ptolemy's Geography, 1475-1730, page 42

Ruscelli's Italian translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.