Geographiae Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini, philosophi ac mathematici praesta[n]tissimi, libri VIII
By: partim à Bilibaldo Pirckheymero translati ac commentario illustrati, partim etiam Graecorum antiquissimorumq[ue] exemplariorum collatione emendati atque in integrum restituti ; his accesserunt, scholia, quibus exoleta locorum omnium nomina in Ptolemaei libris ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur ; indices duo hactenus à multis desiderati, quoru[m] adminiculo, ueterum simul ac recentiorum locorum (ut pote regionum, marium, insularum, promontorium, montium, fluminorum, urbium, &c.) situs, facillima ratione in tabulis depictis deprehedu[n]tur, Conradi Lycosthenis Rubeaque[n]sis opera adiecti ; quibus praefixa est epistola in qua de utilitate tabularum Geographicarum ac duplicis indicis usu latè differitur ; tabulae nouae quae hactenus in nulla Ptolmaica editione uisae sunt per Sebastianum Munsterum ; Geographic[a]e descriptionis compendium, in quo uarij gentium ac regionum ritus, mores atq[ue] consuetudines per eundem explicantur.
Contributors: Lykosthenes, Konrad, 1518-1561.; Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.; Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Ex officina Henrichi Petri
Published: 1552
Place of publication: Basilae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Geographiae Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini, philosophi ac mathematici praesta[n]tissimi, libri VIII
Notes: Adams 2230
Phillips 370
Sabin 66488
Thacher, II, p. 42 (Americana)
"The 4th edition of Münster's Ptolemy, with an additional treatise, and enlarged indexes by Conradus Lycosthenus, i.e. Konrad Wolffhart ... Descriptive text on the reverse of maps, generally within woodcut borders ..."--Phillips, P.L. A list of geographical maps in the Library of Congress, p. 126.
Imprint from colophon on verso of map 54.
Signatures: *⁴, a⁴ b-o⁶ p⁴, 2A-2Q⁶, ²2A-2B⁶ ²2C⁸.
Includes 54 numbered maps on double leaves; blank leaves at end of preliminaries, index, and liber I; paging begins with liber II.
Includes index.
LC copy lacks map 44 "Sclavoniae, Istriae, Carniae, Croatiae, Coruatiae atque Dalmatiae descriptionem"; printing date supplied in ink on t.p.