Geographia uniuersalis, uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII Stanford University Public content

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Geographia vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII, Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII, and Geographia. Latin
Description:
quorum primus noua translatione Pirckheimeri & accessione commentarioli illustrior quàm hactenus fuerit, redditus est ; reliqui cum Graeco & alijs uetustis exemplaribus collati, in infinitis ferè locis castigatiores facti sunt ; addita sunt insuper scholia, quibus exoleta urbium, montium, fluuiorumq[ue] nomina ad nostri seculi morem expon "Third edition of Münster's Ptolemy, Pirckheimer's translation ... Each map contains descriptive text on the reverse, generally printed within ornamental woodcut borders, designed in the Holbein style ..."--Phillips, P.L.A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, p. 124. Colophon: Basilae per Henrichum Petrum mense Augusto, an. M.D. XLV. Includes 54 numbered maps on double leaves, with descriptive text on reverse of each map; paging begins with liber II; last leaf of liber I is a blank. Pirckheimer's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century, Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552, and Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530
Publisher:
Per Henrichum Petrum
Provider:
Stanford
Resource Class:
Other
Subject:
Geography
Date Issued:
1545
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