PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. La Geografia...nuovamente tradotta di greco in Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi 1561. 4to, 216 x 145 mm. (8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.), modern casing of vellum from a 15th-century antiphonal over stiff pasteboard, nineteenth-century morocco lettering-piece on backstrip, lacking quires Yy4 and - 2A2 (i.e., the 2 world maps "Orbis descriptio" and "Ptolemaei Typus"), the "Tavola de' nomi" with errata and register misbound at front, title-leaf repaired at gutter, slight staining to lower margin of first 3 leaves, the maps on new guards, map of Britain in part 1 with short tear along guard, map 21 (part 2) with small repair at fold,Iceland map (part 2) with repaired marginal tears affecting text on recto (cropped), 2 or 3 maps with short repaired marginal tears catching borders, occasional traces of staining on versos from old glue of earlier guards, small repair to last leaf with loss to a few words, some light foxing, browning to text in part 1. 3 parts in one, 62 (of 64) engraved double-page maps, comprising 26 (of 27) maps of the ancient world and 36 (of 37) maps of the modern world, letterpress text on rectos, woodcut diagrams, printer's devices on titles and at end of part 2, woodcut initials. Adams P-2235; Alden and Landis 561/42; Phillips Atlases 371; Sabin 66503. A new translation into Italian; most of the maps are enlarged copies of the Gastaldi maps from the Venice 1548 edition.Provenance: Eighteenth-century inscription on title, "Ex bibliotechi Jacobi Georgii Maconis Verebiat(?)," a few marginalia in the same hand.

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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. La Geografia...nuovamente tradotta di greco in Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi 1561. 4to, 216 x 145 mm. (8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.), modern casing of vellum from a 15th-century antiphonal over stiff pasteboard, nineteenth-century morocco lettering-piece on backstrip, lacking quires Yy4 and - 2A2 (i.e., the 2 world maps "Orbis descriptio" and "Ptolemaei Typus"), the "Tavola de' nomi" with errata and register misbound at front, title-leaf repaired at gutter, slight staining to lower margin of first 3 leaves, the maps on new guards, map of Britain in part 1 with short tear along guard, map 21 (part 2) with small repair at fold,Iceland map (part 2) with repaired marginal tears affecting text on recto (cropped), 2 or 3 maps with short repaired marginal tears catching borders, occasional traces of staining on versos from old glue of earlier guards, small repair to last leaf with loss to a few words, some light foxing, browning to text in part 1. 3 parts in one, 62 (of 64) engraved double-page maps, comprising 26 (of 27) maps of the ancient world and 36 (of 37) maps of the modern world, letterpress text on rectos, woodcut diagrams, printer's devices on titles and at end of part 2, woodcut initials. Adams P-2235; Alden and Landis 561/42; Phillips Atlases 371; Sabin 66503. A new translation into Italian; most of the maps are enlarged copies of the Gastaldi maps from the Venice 1548 edition. Provenance: Eighteenth-century inscription on title, "Ex bibliotechi Jacobi Georgii Maconis Verebiat(?)," a few marginalia in the same hand.

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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. La Geografia...nuovamente tradotta di greco in Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi 1561. 4to, 216 x 145 mm. (8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.), modern casing of vellum from a 15th-century antiphonal over stiff pasteboard, nineteenth-century morocco lettering-piece on backstrip, lacking quires Yy4 and - 2A2 (i.e., the 2 world maps "Orbis descriptio" and "Ptolemaei Typus"), the "Tavola de' nomi" with errata and register misbound at front, title-leaf repaired at gutter, slight staining to lower margin of first 3 leaves, the maps on new guards, map of Britain in part 1 with short tear along guard, map 21 (part 2) with small repair at fold,Iceland map (part 2) with repaired marginal tears affecting text on recto (cropped), 2 or 3 maps with short repaired marginal tears catching borders, occasional traces of staining on versos from old glue of earlier guards, small repair to last leaf with loss to a few words, some light foxing, browning to text in part 1. 3 parts in one, 62 (of 64) engraved double-page maps, comprising 26 (of 27) maps of the ancient world and 36 (of 37) maps of the modern world, letterpress text on rectos, woodcut diagrams, printer's devices on titles and at end of part 2, woodcut initials. Adams P-2235; Alden and Landis 561/42; Phillips Atlases 371; Sabin 66503. A new translation into Italian; most of the maps are enlarged copies of the Gastaldi maps from the Venice 1548 edition.

Provenance: Eighteenth-century inscription on title, "Ex bibliotechi Jacobi Georgii Maconis Verebiat(?)," a few marginalia in the same hand.