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 : schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correcta a Marco Beneuentano Monacho caelestino & Ioanne Cotta Veronensi uiris Mathematicis consultissimi ...
Contributors: Ruysch, Johannes, d. 1533.; Vitali, Bernardino dei, fl. 1494-1539, printer.
Publisher: [B. Venetus de Vitalibus]
Published: 1508
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Geography, Ancient -- Early works to 1800; Geography -- Early works to 1800; Comsography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Geographia.
Notes: The first edition of Ptolemy to contain a description of the New World.

The atlas volume contains Johannes Ruysch's map, Universalior cogniti orbis tabula ex recentibus confecta observationi, which for nearly 400 years was considered the first map to show the New World.

The Liechtenstein copy.

Decorative border on left side of t.p.

Decorative and historiated initials.

Signatures: A-C8, D-E6, F-N8.

WSU MASC copy lacks atlas.

WSU MASC copy: signature N leaves bound in incorrect order [N], Nii, Niiii, [N5], Niii, [N6], [N7], [N8].

WSU MASC copy is: 002-114706823.