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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. First edition of Ptolemy edited by Michael Servetus. The work divides into 3 parts: the text, comprising the new Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530), edited by Michael Villanovanus, known as Servetus (1511-1553); the maps, 27 depicting the ancient world and 22 of the modern world, with one map of Lotharingia; and the index. The maps are printed from unaltered blocks used in Lorenz Fries's edition printed by Grüninger in 1522 (the final map is captioned with this date and Fries's initials). 4 of the maps, including 2 maps of the modern world, relate to the Americas. Alden & Landis 535/14; Phillips Atlases 364; Sabin 66483. Folio (420 x 285mm). Large woodcut on title; colophon leaf n4 present. 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, most with text on versos 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 (lacking a2, the dedication leaf with contents list to book 1 on verso). Late 18th-/early 19th-century half calf, flat spine gilt, with red and green lettering pieces (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Jesuit College, Brescia (inscription on title) – censor's approval of Fr. Dominicus Soncinas of the Inquisition in Cremona (inscription on title).