Geographia uniuersalis, uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptoloemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII
By: quorum primus noua translatione Pirckheimheri et accessione commentarioli illustrior quàm hactenus fuerit, redditus est ; reliqui cum Graeco & alijs uetustis exe[m]plaribus collati, in infinitis ferè locis castigatiores facti sunt ; addita sunt insuper scholia, quibus exoleta urbium, montium, fluuiorumq[ue] nomina ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur ; succedunt tabulae Ptolemaic[a]e opera Sebastiani Munsteri nouo paratae modo ; his adiectae sunt plurim[a]e nouae tabulae, moderna[m] orbis faciem literis & pictura explicantes, inter quas quaedam antehàc Ptolemaeo non fuerunt additae ; ultimo annexum est compendium geographic[a]e descriptionis, in quo uarij gentium & regionum ritus & mores explicantur ; pr[a]efixus est quoq[ue] uniuerso operii index memorabiliu[m] populorum, ciuitatum, fluuiorum, montium, terrarum, lacuum &c
Contributors: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552; Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Apud Henricum Petrum
Published: 1540
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Geography
Other titles: Geographia vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII
Work titles: Geographia
Notes: "A new and important edition, revised and edited by the geographer Sebastian Münster, who designed the maps anew, and added an appendix."--Sabin.

Signatures: 2a⁴ *⁶ a-c⁶, A-N⁶, 2A-2B⁶, 2C⁸.

Includes 48 numbered maps on double leaves, with explanatory text on the recto of the first leaf.

Includes indexes.

LC copy imperfect, lacking 2a4 (errata) and 2c8 (blank leaf).

With: Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Claudii Ptolemaei Pelusiensis Alexandrini Omnia quae extant opera, Geographia excepta. Basilae : Apud H. Petrum, 1541. Bound together subsequent to publication.

Adams 2224

Sabin 66484

Thacher, II, p. 41 (Americana)

Pirckheimer's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.