PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Geographiae universae tum veteris, tum novae... Quorum primus... commentariis... illustratus est à Io. Antonio Magino. Cologne: Petrus Keschedt [1597]. 4to, 219 x 161 (8 7/8 x 6 3/8), modern calf, neatly repaired 1-inch tear to title, outer blank corners of fols. M3-4 in part 1 torn and repaired, some light discoloration, occasional slight mostly marginal foxing, scattered small marginal dampstains. Second Latin edition, issue without colophon, 2 parts in one, titles on oval cartouches within engraved allegorical borders, 64 engraved maps after Girolamo Porro, consisting of a double-page modern world map based on Rumold Mercator's 1587 version, bound in after p. 28 in part 2, and 63 full-page maps printed on rectos or versos of letterpress, including 3 further ancient world maps (a classical Ptolemaic map, a map in the oval projection used by Ortelius, and a nautical map after Mercator), titles and all but 3 maps hand-colored, woodcut diagrams in Part I, woodcut initials and ornaments. Alden & Landis 597/57; Phillips 404 (issue with colophon); Sabin 66493n and 43822; Shirley 201-204. Second edition of Magini's edition of Ptolemy, first published in Venice in 1596. The maps are exact copies of Girolamo Porro's maps used for the first edition and later Venetian editions (see following lot).Provenance: "Fratris Alexandri de Zug[?] ordinis[?] Minorum conventualis[?] 1602," inscription at bottom of title-page -- Convent of St. Dorothy, slightly later inscription on title.

PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Geographiae universae tum veteris, tum novae... Quorum primus... commentariis... illustratus est à Io. Antonio Magino. Cologne: Petrus Keschedt [1597]. 4to, 219 x 161 (8 7/8 x 6 3/8), modern calf, neatly repaired 1-inch tear to title, outer blank corners of fols. M3-4 in part 1 torn and repaired, some light discoloration, occasional slight mostly marginal foxing, scattered small marginal dampstains. Second Latin edition, issue without colophon, 2 parts in one, titles on oval cartouches within engraved allegorical borders, 64 engraved maps after Girolamo Porro, consisting of a double-page modern world map based on Rumold Mercator's 1587 version, bound in after p. 28 in part 2, and 63 full-page maps printed on rectos or versos of letterpress, including 3 further ancient world maps (a classical Ptolemaic map, a map in the oval projection used by Ortelius, and a nautical map after Mercator), titles and all but 3 maps hand-colored, woodcut diagrams in Part I, woodcut initials and ornaments. Alden & Landis 597/57; Phillips 404 (issue with colophon); Sabin 66493n and 43822; Shirley 201-204. Second edition of Magini's edition of Ptolemy, first published in Venice in 1596. The maps are exact copies of Girolamo Porro's maps used for the first edition and later Venetian editions (see following lot). Provenance: "Fratris Alexandri de Zug[?] ordinis[?] Minorum conventualis[?] 1602," inscription at bottom of title-page -- Convent of St. Dorothy, slightly later inscription on title.

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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Geographiae universae tum veteris, tum novae... Quorum primus... commentariis... illustratus est à Io. Antonio Magino. Cologne: Petrus Keschedt [1597]. 4to, 219 x 161 (8 7/8 x 6 3/8), modern calf, neatly repaired 1-inch tear to title, outer blank corners of fols. M3-4 in part 1 torn and repaired, some light discoloration, occasional slight mostly marginal foxing, scattered small marginal dampstains. Second Latin edition, issue without colophon, 2 parts in one, titles on oval cartouches within engraved allegorical borders, 64 engraved maps after Girolamo Porro, consisting of a double-page modern world map based on Rumold Mercator's 1587 version, bound in after p. 28 in part 2, and 63 full-page maps printed on rectos or versos of letterpress, including 3 further ancient world maps (a classical Ptolemaic map, a map in the oval projection used by Ortelius, and a nautical map after Mercator), titles and all but 3 maps hand-colored, woodcut diagrams in Part I, woodcut initials and ornaments. Alden & Landis 597/57; Phillips 404 (issue with colophon); Sabin 66493n and 43822; Shirley 201-204.

Second edition of Magini's edition of Ptolemy, first published in Venice in 1596. The maps are exact copies of Girolamo Porro's maps used for the first edition and later Venetian editions (see following lot).

Provenance: "Fratris Alexandri de Zug[?] ordinis[?] Minorum conventualis[?] 1602," inscription at bottom of title-page -- Convent of St. Dorothy, slightly later inscription on title.