In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a  plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata
By: schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correcta a Marco Beneuentano ... & Ioanne Cotta ... ; figura de proiectione spherae in plano quae in libro octauo desiderabatur ab ipsis no[n]dum instaurata sed fere ad inuenta eius. n. uestigia in nullo etiam Graeco codice extabant ; maxima quantitas dier[um] ciuitatu[m], & distantiae locor[um] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti cuiusq[ue] ciuitatis quae in alijs codicibus no[n] erant ; planisphaerium Cl. Ptolemaei recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Benuentano ... ; noua orbis descriptio ac nuoa oceani nauigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] peruenitur pelagus Marco Benuentano ... aedita ; noua & uniuersalior orbis tabula Ioa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata ; sex tabulae nouiter confectae uidelicet Liuoniae, Hyspaniae, Galliae, Germaniae, Italiae, & Iudeae.
Contributors: Marcus, de Benevento.; Cotta, Giovanni, 1480 or 2-1510.; D'Angelo, Jacopo.; Ruysch, Johannes, d. 1533.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Impressum per Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus : Expe[n]sis Eua[n]gelista Tosino Brixiano Bibliopola
Published: 1508
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: In hoc opere haec continentvr Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata
Notes: Phillips 357
Sabin 66476
Thacher, II, p. 42 (Americana)
Jacopo D'Angelo's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.
"A reissue of the preceding edition, with a new title-page, and the addition of the "orbis nuoua descriptio" of Beneventanus in fourteen leaves, and Ruysch's map of the world"--Sabin.
Publisher from colophon; colophon dated 1507.
Signatures: A-C⁸ D-E⁶ F-O⁸, a⁶ b⁸, 2A-2B⁸ 2C⁴.
Includes 34 maps on double leaves; second state of Ruysch map.
LC copy has ink inscription on front free endpaper: Walter Bowman; lengthy ms. notes in ink at end; bound in contemporary red-brown calf binding, with medallions showing Ptolemaeus in the center of the front and back covers; clasps wanting.