Geographia uniuersalis, uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII
By: quorum primus noua translatione Pirckheimeri & accessione commentarioli illustrior quàm hactenus fuerit, redditus est ; reliqui cum Graeco & alijs uetustis exemplaribus 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 Ptolemicae, opera Sebastiani Munsteri nuouo paratae modo ; his adiectae sunt plurimae nouaue tabulae, modernam orbis faciem literis & pictura explicantes, inter quas qu[a]edam antehàc Ptolem[a]eo non fuerunt additae ; ultimo annexum est compendium geographicae descriptionis, in quo uarij gentium & regionum ritus & mores explicantur ; praefixus est quoq[ue] uniuerso operi index memorabiliu[m] populorum, ciuitatum, fluuiorum, montium, terrarum, lacuum &c. ; adiectae sunt huic posteriori editioni nouae quaedam tabulae, quae hactenus apud nullam Ptolemaicam impressum uisae sunt.
Contributors: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.; Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per Henrichum Petrum
Published: 1545
Place of publication: Basilae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Geographia vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII; Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII
Notes: Pirckheimer's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.
"Third edition of Münster's Ptolemy, Pirckheimer's translation ... Each map contains descriptive text on the reverse, generally printed within ornamental woodcut borders, designed in the Holbein style ..."--Phillips, P.L. A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, p. 124.
Colophon: Basilae per Henrichum Petrum mense Augusto, an. M.D.XLV.
Signatures: 2a⁴, *⁶, a-c⁶, A-N⁶, 2A-B⁶ 2C⁸.
Includes 54 numbered maps on double leaves, with descriptive text on reverse of each map; paging begins with liber II; last leaf of liber I is a blank.
Includes index.
LC copy has armorial bookplate and on t.p. inscriptions in ink: Thomas Parry and Thomas Knyvett and various notations in red ink.
Phillips 368
Sabin 66487
Thacher, II, p. 41 (Americana)