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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178). Geographicae enarrationis libri octo . Retranslated by Wilibald Pirckheimer. Edited by Michael Villanovanus [Servetus]. Lyon: Melchior and Gasper Trechsel, 1535.
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178). Geographicae enarrationis libri octo . Retranslated by Wilibald Pirckheimer. Edited by Michael Villanovanus [Servetus]. Lyon: Melchior and Gasper Trechsel, 1535. 2° (408 x 285 mm). Large woodcut on title; colophon leaf n4 present. 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, most with text on versoes enclosed within elaborate woodcut borders [said to be the work of Hans Holbein and Urs Graf]; text with 4 large woodcut diagrams and 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds by Albrecht Dürer (l4 verso), woodcut initials. (Variable light browning, heavier to quire h and map 14 of India, light marginal staining to a few leaves, heavier to D5-E1 of index and just into text at gutter.) Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, bevelled edges, (lacking clasps, repaired tear to bottom right-hand corner of upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed, heavier to head- and tailcaps with former just fraying). Provenance : H.A. Bright (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF PTOLEMY WITH PIRCKHEIMER'S TRANSLATION EDITED BY MICHAEL SERVETUS . It contains 27 maps depicting the ancient world, 22 of the modern world, and one map of Lotharingia, all printed from unaltered blocks used in Lorenz Fries' edition printed by Grüninger in 1522 Four of the maps, including two maps of the modern world, relate to the Americas. Alden & Landis 535/14; Phillips Atlases 364; Sabin 66483.