Geographia uniuersalis, uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII
By: quorum primus noua translatione Pirckheimheri et accessione commentarioli illustrior quàm hactenus fuerit, redditus est ; reliqui cum Graeco & alijs uetustis exe[m]plaribus 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 Ptemaicae, opera Sebastiani Munsteri nouo paratae modo ; his adiectae sunt plurimae nouae tabulae, moderna[m] orbis faciam literis & pictura explicantes, inter quas quaedam antehàc Ptolemaeo non fuerunt additae ; ultimo annexum est compendium geographicae descriptionis, in quo uarij gentium & regionum ritus & mores explicantur ; praefixus est quoq[ue] uniuerso operii index memorabiliu[m] populorum, ciuitatum, fluuiorum, montium, terrarum, lacuum &c
Contributors: Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530; Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Apud Henricum Petrum
Published: 1542
Place of publication: Basilae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Geography; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Clavdii Ptolemaei Pelvsiensis Alexandrini omnia, qvae extant, opera, Geographica excepta, quam seorsim quoq[ue] hac forma impressimus
Work titles: Geographia
Notes: "The second edition of Münster's Ptolemy, reprinted from the edition of 1540, without alteration or addition."--Sabin.

Publication date from colophon.

Signatures: 2a⁴ *⁶ a-c⁶ A-N⁶ 2A-2B⁶ 2C⁸.

Text printed in double columns; 48 maps on double leaves, with descriptive text on recto of first leaf.

Adams P2227

Sabin 66486

Thacher, II, p. 41 (Americana)

Pirckheimer's Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geographia.