Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini
By: olim a Bilibaldo Pirckheimherio tra[n]slata ; at nunc multis codicibus Graecis collata, pluribusque in locis ad pristinam ueritatem redacta a Iosepho Moletio ... ; addita sunt in primum, & septimum librum amplissima eiusdem commentaria, quibus omnia, quae ad Geographiam attinent, & quae praetermissa sunt a Ptolemaeo declarantur atque nominibus antiquis regionum, ciuitatem, oppidorum, montium, syluarum, fluuirum, lacuum, caeterorumque locorum, apposita sunt recentiora ; adsunt LXIIII tabulae XXVII nempe antiquae, & reliquae nouae, quae totam continent terram, nostrae, ac Ptolemaei aetati cognitam, typisq[ue] aeneis excussa ; indices rerum quae tractantur copiosissimi.
Contributors: Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530.; Moleti, Giuseppe, 1531-1588.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Apud Vincentium Valgrisium
Published: 1562
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Adams P2231
Sabin 66489
Thacher, II, p. 40 (Americana)
Pirckheimer's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.
"A new edition, revised and annotated by Josephus Moletius ... The 64 double-page copperplate maps were from the same plates as those in the Italian version printed at Venice in 1561."--Sabin.
Signatures: *⁴ A-O⁴ ²A-S⁸ ³A-H⁴.
Includes 64 numbered maps on double leaves, most with descriptive text on the recto of the first leaf.
Includes indexes.
LC copy imperfect, lacking t.p. and gathering Q is misbound after gathering R.