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PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)Geographicae enarrationis libri octo [edited by Michael Villanovanus Servetus], 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), 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut historiated initials, decorative page headings, borders, and tail-pieces, divisional title to index, title-page with neat repair to upper right corner, early ownership inscriptions to title (one legible, others obliterated), occasional manuscript notations throughout, binder's waste used as pastedowns and endpapers, damp staining mostly to upper margin, last 3 leaves with lower corners torn, near contemporary limp vellum, one tie lacking, worn [Phillips 364; Sabin 66483], folio (405 x 290mm.), Lyon, Melchior and Gasper Trechsel, 1535FootnotesThe first printing of the edition edited by Michael Villanovanus, known as Servetus (1511-1553), with the Latin translation by the German humanist Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530). The maps (27 of the ancient world; 22 of the modern world) are printed from woodblocks first used in Lorenz Fries's 1522 edition printed by Grüninger (the final map is captioned with this date with Fries's initials), then again in Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1525.
The double-page maps of the ancient and modern world comprise: 10 of Europe, 4 of Africa, 12 of Asia, World map, New World, 2 further World maps and 19 others (including Britain and further maps of Africa, Asia and Europe, one with a single-page map of Lotharingia on verso). The maps featuring the Americas are number 28 ("Tabula terre nova") with an account of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus on the verso, number 34 ("Norbegia et Gottia") showing Greenland as a peninsula of Europe, number 49 ("Tabula nova orbis"), and number 50 ("Tabula totius orbis"), the celebrated map of the world by Lorenz Fries, the first Ptolomeian map to use the name 'America', on a portion of the South American Continent.
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