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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178). Geographicae enarrationis libri octo. Translated by Wilibald Pirckheimer, with the annotations of Johannes Regiomontanus. Strassburg: Johannes Grüninger and Johannes Koberger, 1525.
2° (366 x 254mm). Title within woodcut architectural border, the descriptive Latin text for the geography and the maps set within woodcut borders, decorative initials, 50 woodcut maps, all but one double-page, one full-page illustration on M3v. (Several holes in outer border of title with loss of border and title, some marginal worming, mainly at beginning and end, maps 29, 30, 31 strengthened at inner gutter on verso, outer margins of map 48 with large repair on verso, a few leaves lightly browned, light marginal soiling or spotting, a few leaves lightly waterstained, some leaves apparently supplied from another copy). 17th-century limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (spine lightly soiled and with remnants of label at bottom, light browning along fore-edges of sides, marks of adhesive tape on pastedown).
The first edition translated by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer, and with annotations by Regiomontanus criticizing the 15th-century translation of Jacobus Angelus of Scarpia. This fourth Strassburg edition, the second by Grüninger, reuses the maps of his 1522 edition, except for the fifth map of Asia, map 19, which was recut to conform to the format of the others. It includes the world map Orbis typus universalis by Laurentius Fries, based on a model by Waldseemüller -- one of the first maps in a Ptolemy edition to include the name America. The account of Christopher Columbus' discovery is given in the text for map 28. It has been suggested that the borders surrounding the explanatory text of these maps was the work of Hans Holbein. Adams P-2221; Nordenskiold Collection 208; Phillips Atlases 362; Sabin 66482.
2° (366 x 254mm). Title within woodcut architectural border, the descriptive Latin text for the geography and the maps set within woodcut borders, decorative initials, 50 woodcut maps, all but one double-page, one full-page illustration on M3v. (Several holes in outer border of title with loss of border and title, some marginal worming, mainly at beginning and end, maps 29, 30, 31 strengthened at inner gutter on verso, outer margins of map 48 with large repair on verso, a few leaves lightly browned, light marginal soiling or spotting, a few leaves lightly waterstained, some leaves apparently supplied from another copy). 17th-century limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (spine lightly soiled and with remnants of label at bottom, light browning along fore-edges of sides, marks of adhesive tape on pastedown).
The first edition translated by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer, and with annotations by Regiomontanus criticizing the 15th-century translation of Jacobus Angelus of Scarpia. This fourth Strassburg edition, the second by Grüninger, reuses the maps of his 1522 edition, except for the fifth map of Asia, map 19, which was recut to conform to the format of the others. It includes the world map Orbis typus universalis by Laurentius Fries, based on a model by Waldseemüller -- one of the first maps in a Ptolemy edition to include the name America. The account of Christopher Columbus' discovery is given in the text for map 28. It has been suggested that the borders surrounding the explanatory text of these maps was the work of Hans Holbein. Adams P-2221; Nordenskiold Collection 208; Phillips Atlases 362; Sabin 66482.
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