Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographiae libri octo
By: recogniti iam et diligenter emendati cum tabulis geographicis ad mentem auctoris restitutis ac emendatis, per Gerardum Mercatorem ...
Contributors: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.; Mylius, Arnold, 1540-1604.; Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Typis Godefridi Kempensis
Published: 1584
Place of publication: Coloniae Agrippinae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Adams P2232
Sabin 66491
Thacher, II, p. 36 (Americana)
Pirckheimer's Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geographia.
"The first edition of Ptolemy's Geography with Mercator's maps. The text is the version of Pirckheimer, edited by Arnoldus Mylius ..."--Sabin.
Place of publication and printer from colophon, which reads: Coloniae Agrippinae Typis Godefridi Kempensis. anno Virginei partus, M.D.LXXXIIII.
Signatures: pi2 A-L⁶ M⁴ (M4 blank) (?)⁴ ²A-²2B² a-b⁶ c⁴ (blank).
Page 107-108 misnumbered 89-90.
Title within engraved ornamental border; text printed in double columns; 27 of the 28 maps are printed on double leaves with descriptive text on the recto of the first leaf, one map is a small unsigned folded leaf between gathering N and O.