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PTOLOMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178). Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini. Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai and Jodocus Hondius, 1605.
2 (426 x 288mm). Greek and Latin text, title imprint Koeman A, naming Amsterdam only. Engraved title, half-page engraved portrait of Mercator, 28 engraved maps on guards, all but one double-page, woodcut text diagrams, ornamental tailpieces. (Browning, sometimes heavy, some spotting, heavier in index, repaired marginal tear in one plate, some marginal dampstaining.) 17th?-century reversed pigskin (defective, lacking rear cover).
FIRST EDITION of Ptolemy's Geographia with the Greek text in parallel with the Latin. 'The Ptolemy edition of 1605 is the FIRST WORK PRINTED IN GREEK IN AMSTERDAM and a typographic masterpiece': Koeman Me 3.
2 (426 x 288mm). Greek and Latin text, title imprint Koeman A, naming Amsterdam only. Engraved title, half-page engraved portrait of Mercator, 28 engraved maps on guards, all but one double-page, woodcut text diagrams, ornamental tailpieces. (Browning, sometimes heavy, some spotting, heavier in index, repaired marginal tear in one plate, some marginal dampstaining.) 17th?-century reversed pigskin (defective, lacking rear cover).
FIRST EDITION of Ptolemy's Geographia with the Greek text in parallel with the Latin. 'The Ptolemy edition of 1605 is the FIRST WORK PRINTED IN GREEK IN AMSTERDAM and a typographic masterpiece': Koeman Me 3.