PTOLOMAEUS, CLAUDIUS (c.100-178AD)
PTOLOMAEUS, CLAUDIUS (c.100-178AD) La Geographia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino. Venice: 1548. Niccolo Bascarini for Giovanni Battista Pederzano. 8vo (160 x 100mm). Title with decorative woodcut borders, woodcut portrait of Ptolemy sighting stars, woodcut initials, and diagrams, upper blank margins of 2 or 3 maps neatly restored. 60 double-page engraved maps, 26 of the ancient world and 34 of the modern. (Lower margin of title torn with loss and neatly restored.) Green morocco by Leighton, spine lettered in gilt, covers with blind stamped arms of Stirling Maxwell g.e (joints and corners rubbed). Provenance: William Stirling Maxwell (book plate and binding). THE STIRLING MAXWELL COPY OF THE FIRST ATLAS OF THE NEW WORLD. The first edition in Italian (Nordenskiold), the maps designed by Giacomo Gastaldi. Most of the 34 maps of the modern world are new, including 7 of the Americas. The map Nueva Hispania showing Mississippi and Florida is the first separate printed map of the region. Philips Atlases 369 Nordenskiold 2, 214; Sabin 66502
PTOLOMAEUS, CLAUDIUS (c.100-178AD)
PTOLOMAEUS, CLAUDIUS (c.100-178AD) La Geographia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino. Venice: 1548. Niccolo Bascarini for Giovanni Battista Pederzano. 8vo (160 x 100mm). Title with decorative woodcut borders, woodcut portrait of Ptolemy sighting stars, woodcut initials, and diagrams, upper blank margins of 2 or 3 maps neatly restored. 60 double-page engraved maps, 26 of the ancient world and 34 of the modern. (Lower margin of title torn with loss and neatly restored.) Green morocco by Leighton, spine lettered in gilt, covers with blind stamped arms of Stirling Maxwell g.e (joints and corners rubbed). Provenance: William Stirling Maxwell (book plate and binding). THE STIRLING MAXWELL COPY OF THE FIRST ATLAS OF THE NEW WORLD. The first edition in Italian (Nordenskiold), the maps designed by Giacomo Gastaldi. Most of the 34 maps of the modern world are new, including 7 of the Americas. The map Nueva Hispania showing Mississippi and Florida is the first separate printed map of the region. Philips Atlases 369 Nordenskiold 2, 214; Sabin 66502
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