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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178). Geographicae enarrationis libri octo. Vienna and Lyons: Gaspar Trechsel for Hugues de La Porte, 1541.
2° (379 x 265mm). Letterpress title with large woodcut printer's device, 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, text with 4 large woodcut diagrams and 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds by Albrecht Dürer (l4v, folded at fore-edge), woodcut initials. (Dampstain with associated paper tears extending from beginning through to the 12th map, sometime repaired with loss of a few letters, small wormhole and a few associated repairs extending to K6, light marginal stain from map 27 to the end.) 17th-century calf, gilt spine (repair to head of spine, hinges repaired, joints cracked, tail of spine slightly defective, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: early ink inscription in French recording purchase on front pastedown.
The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus. The work divides into three parts; the text, comprising the Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530), edited by Michael Villanovanus, known as Servetus (1511-1553); the maps, 27 depicting the ancient world and 22 of the modern world, with one map of Lotharingia; and the index. The maps are printed from unaltered blocks first used in Lorenz Fries's edition printed by Grüninger in 1522. Several of the maps in this edition, including that relating to the Holy Land, are printed without their descriptive text on the versos, indicative of the effect of Calvinism, which meant that many copies of the earlier editions were burned on Calvin's orders. Michael Servetus, a Spanish theologian and physician, was burned at the stake in 1553, condemned by Calvin for his doctrinal heresies. Brunet IV, 955; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French, 450; Phillips Atlases 366; Sabin 66485.
2° (379 x 265mm). Letterpress title with large woodcut printer's device, 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, text with 4 large woodcut diagrams and 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds by Albrecht Dürer (l4v, folded at fore-edge), woodcut initials. (Dampstain with associated paper tears extending from beginning through to the 12th map, sometime repaired with loss of a few letters, small wormhole and a few associated repairs extending to K6, light marginal stain from map 27 to the end.) 17th-century calf, gilt spine (repair to head of spine, hinges repaired, joints cracked, tail of spine slightly defective, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: early ink inscription in French recording purchase on front pastedown.
The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus. The work divides into three parts; the text, comprising the Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530), edited by Michael Villanovanus, known as Servetus (1511-1553); the maps, 27 depicting the ancient world and 22 of the modern world, with one map of Lotharingia; and the index. The maps are printed from unaltered blocks first used in Lorenz Fries's edition printed by Grüninger in 1522. Several of the maps in this edition, including that relating to the Holy Land, are printed without their descriptive text on the versos, indicative of the effect of Calvinism, which meant that many copies of the earlier editions were burned on Calvin's orders. Michael Servetus, a Spanish theologian and physician, was burned at the stake in 1553, condemned by Calvin for his doctrinal heresies. Brunet IV, 955; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French, 450; Phillips Atlases 366; Sabin 66485.
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