Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini
By: Latinè primùm recogniti & emendati, cum tabulis geographicis ad mentem auctoris resitutis per Gerardum Mercatorem ; iam verò ad Graecae & Latina exemplaria à Petro Montano iterum recogniti, et pluribus locis castigati ; adjecta insuper ab eodem nomina recentia et aequipollentia ex varijs auctoribus veteribus et recentiorib. magna cura collecta, in gratiam et usum geographiae studiosorum.
Contributors: Bertius, Petrus, 1565-1629.; Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.; Montanus, Petrus, 1595?-1638.; Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Iodocus Hondius excudit sibi et Cornelio Nicolai, in cujus officina prostant Fra[n]cofurti, Amsterodami
Published: 1605
Place of publication: [Frankfurt]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini
Notes: Sabin 66494
Thacher, II, p. 37 (Americana)
Willibald Pirckheimer's Latin translation, with Latin and Greek text in parallel columns.
Petrus Bertius aided in the preparation of this edition. Cf. "I. Hondius Lectori S." (p. [3], first sequence)
Imprint varies.
"The first edition of the Greek and Latin text together, accompanied by Mercator's maps, and edited by Petrus Montanus"--Sabin.
Signatures: pi6 a-b⁶ c⁴ A-V² V.2² X-Z² 2Z² 2A-2B² ²A-V⁶ ²X⁴.
Title within engraved architectural border; portrait of Mercator engraved by Franz Hogenberg.
Twenty seven double maps, with descriptive text on the recto of the first leaf.
Includes index.
LC copy has hand colored t.p., portrait, and maps.