PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Geographia Universalis, vetus et nova complectens... Succedunt tabulae Ptolemaicae, opera Sebastiani Munsteri novo paratae modo. Basel: Heinrich Petri 1542. Folio, 302 x 198 mm. (11 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.), contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, original clasps, edges stained yellow, endpapers renewed, covers rubbed and stained, tightly bound; modern linen folding box; the maps (quires 1-48) misbound between Parts I and II, title-leaf cut round and inlaid and with a few small repairs affecting text, mapsheets 19-29 supplied from another copy, maps 21-23 slightly creased and with small repairs at gutter, map 29 torn and repaired, 3-inch clean tear to map 48 (Lake of Constance), occasional light mostly marginal dampstaining, scattered marginal foxing, a few minor marginal tears. Second edition of Münster's Ptolemy, Roman type, double column, 48 woodcut mapsheets, text within woodcut borders on rectos (some of the borders possibly after Holbein, two signed with Adam Petri's monogram), 7 woodcut text diagrams, printer's woodcut device on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials. Adams P-2228; Alden 542/22; Burden 12 and 13; Burmeister 167; Phillips 367; Sabin 66486; Shirley 77.A page for page reprint of Münster's 1540 edition, a revision of Willibald Pirckheimer's translation for which Münster redesigned the maps and added an appendix. The maps were printed from the same blocks, with occasional variant captions and the woodcut text borders in a different order. Three maps relate to the Americas, the world map, the map of Schonlandia (Scandinavia), showing the "Terra nova sive de Bacalhos" in the upper left, and the "Novae Insulae XVII Nova Tabula", the earliest known map to show the Americas as a separate continent; on the recto is an account of Columbus's discoveries.

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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Geographia Universalis, vetus et nova complectens... Succedunt tabulae Ptolemaicae, opera Sebastiani Munsteri novo paratae modo. Basel: Heinrich Petri 1542. Folio, 302 x 198 mm. (11 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.), contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, original clasps, edges stained yellow, endpapers renewed, covers rubbed and stained, tightly bound; modern linen folding box; the maps (quires 1-48) misbound between Parts I and II, title-leaf cut round and inlaid and with a few small repairs affecting text, mapsheets 19-29 supplied from another copy, maps 21-23 slightly creased and with small repairs at gutter, map 29 torn and repaired, 3-inch clean tear to map 48 (Lake of Constance), occasional light mostly marginal dampstaining, scattered marginal foxing, a few minor marginal tears. Second edition of Münster's Ptolemy, Roman type, double column, 48 woodcut mapsheets, text within woodcut borders on rectos (some of the borders possibly after Holbein, two signed with Adam Petri's monogram), 7 woodcut text diagrams, printer's woodcut device on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials. Adams P-2228; Alden 542/22; Burden 12 and 13; Burmeister 167; Phillips 367; Sabin 66486; Shirley 77. A page for page reprint of Münster's 1540 edition, a revision of Willibald Pirckheimer's translation for which Münster redesigned the maps and added an appendix. The maps were printed from the same blocks, with occasional variant captions and the woodcut text borders in a different order. Three maps relate to the Americas, the world map, the map of Schonlandia (Scandinavia), showing the "Terra nova sive de Bacalhos" in the upper left, and the "Novae Insulae XVII Nova Tabula", the earliest known map to show the Americas as a separate continent; on the recto is an account of Columbus's discoveries.

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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Geographia Universalis, vetus et nova complectens... Succedunt tabulae Ptolemaicae, opera Sebastiani Munsteri novo paratae modo. Basel: Heinrich Petri 1542. Folio, 302 x 198 mm. (11 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.), contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, original clasps, edges stained yellow, endpapers renewed, covers rubbed and stained, tightly bound; modern linen folding box; the maps (quires 1-48) misbound between Parts I and II, title-leaf cut round and inlaid and with a few small repairs affecting text, mapsheets 19-29 supplied from another copy, maps 21-23 slightly creased and with small repairs at gutter, map 29 torn and repaired, 3-inch clean tear to map 48 (Lake of Constance), occasional light mostly marginal dampstaining, scattered marginal foxing, a few minor marginal tears. Second edition of Münster's Ptolemy, Roman type, double column, 48 woodcut mapsheets, text within woodcut borders on rectos (some of the borders possibly after Holbein, two signed with Adam Petri's monogram), 7 woodcut text diagrams, printer's woodcut device on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials. Adams P-2228; Alden 542/22; Burden 12 and 13; Burmeister 167; Phillips 367; Sabin 66486; Shirley 77.

A page for page reprint of Münster's 1540 edition, a revision of Willibald Pirckheimer's translation for which Münster redesigned the maps and added an appendix. The maps were printed from the same blocks, with occasional variant captions and the woodcut text borders in a different order. Three maps relate to the Americas, the world map, the map of Schonlandia (Scandinavia), showing the "Terra nova sive de Bacalhos" in the upper left, and the "Novae Insulae XVII Nova Tabula", the earliest known map to show the Americas as a separate continent; on the recto is an account of Columbus's discoveries.