PTOLEMY

GEOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS

15. Item #80536

PTOLEMY. GEOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS, VETUS ET NOVA, complectens
Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII. Quorum
primus noua translatione Pirckheimheri et accessione commentarioli
illustrior quàm hactenus fuerit, redditus est ... Succedunt tabulae
Ptolemaic[a]e, opera Sebastiani Munsteri nouo paratae modo. His
adiectae sunt plurim[a]e nouae tabulae... Basileae: apud Henricum
Petrum, 1540.

20 of 48 maps present: 5. Gallia, 6. Germaniam Magnam, 11. Iazyges,
Metanastas, Daciam, 17. Ionid, Trapesus, 18 Sarmatia Asiaticam, 19.
Colchidem, Iberiam, 22. Arabia Felix, 23. Margianam, Bactriana, 25.
Ariam, Paropanisadas, 26. Indiam Gangem Flu, 29. Europa Prima, 31.
Hispanium, 33. Helvetiae, 34. Germania, 35. Alsatia, 36. Teria
Rheni, 37. Quartia Rheni, 38. Brabantia et Geldria, 39. Svevia et
Bavaria, 40. Franconia.

All maps have descriptive letterpress, printed within a decorative
frame, on reverse.
Most maps have some worming at the center.
Map 5 (Gallia) cannot be opened fully; at some point, it was glued
together along the center fold when a new backingstrip was laid
down.

Small folio: 2a4,a-c6,A-N6 - maps - *6,2A-2B3,2C8 30.3.cm.

Price: $3,500.00