Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
By: ex Bilibaldi Pirckeymheri tralatione, sed ad Graeca & prisca exemplaria à Michaële Villanouano iam primum recogniti ; adiecta insuper ab eodem scholia, quibus exoleta urbium nomina ad nostri seculi more[m] exponuntur ; quinquaginta illae quoque cum ueterum tum recentium tabulae adnectuntur, uariiq[ue] incolentium ritus & mores explicantur.
Contributors: Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530.; Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Ex officina Melchioris et Gasparis Trechsel Fratrum
Published: 1535
Place of publication: Lugduni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
Notes: Adams P2223
Sabin 66483
Thacher, II, p. 37 (Americana)
Pirckheimer's Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geographia.
Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁴ A-E⁶ F⁸.
All but one of the 50 maps are on double leaves, with descriptive text on recto and verso; text is printed in double columns.