Klaudiou Ptolemaiou Alexandreōs philosophou en tois malista pepaideumenou, peri tes geographias biblia oktō, meta pasēs akribeias entypōthenta =
Subtitle: Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini philosophi cum primis eruditi, De geographia libri octo, summa cum uigilantia excusi.
Contributors: Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [H. Frobenius and N. Episcopius]
Published: 1533
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: grc
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini philosophi cum primis eruditi, De geographia libri octo, summa cum uigilantia excusi; Peri tes geographias biblia oktō; De geographia libri octo
Notes: First part of title romanized from the Greek; text chiefly in Greek with Latin dedication.
Contains a dedicatory letter from Erasmus to Theobald Fettich, who owned the manuscript used for the printing of this first edition of the Greek text; Erasmus is usually credited with having edited the work, but it is unlikely that he did so.
Colophon: Etypōthē en Basileia par'Ieronymō tō Phrōbeniō kai Nikolaō tō Episkopiō, 1533.
Signatures: pi⁴, a-z⁴, A-Z⁴, 2a-2y⁴.
Printer's mark on t.p. and p. [544].
LC copy has in ink on front free endpaper: [A?]nsse de Villoison and on t.p.: Colli Claro[m?] Societ. Jesu catalogo inscriptus.
Adams P2222
Thacher, II, p. 43 (Americana)