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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° (405 x 282mm). 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, woodcut initials. (Some light browning or staining, notably to full-page diagrams and maps 11 and 19, slight worming along some folds.) 17th-century vellum (slight wear to extremities, some cracking). Provenance: partially erased inscription in Latin on verso of final leaf dated 11 April 1601, recording that the present work was bought for 4 silver coins from Mr A[..] Gordon.
The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus. The work divides into three parts; the text, comprising the new 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 used in Lorenz Fries's edition printed by Grüninger in 1522 (the final map is captioned with this date and Fries's initials), in Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1525 and in the first Trechsel edition printed at Lyons in 1535.
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 burnt on Calvin's orders. Michael Servetus, a Spanish theologian and physician, was burnt at the stake in 1553, condemned by Calvin for his doctrinal heresies. The provenance of this copy is interesting, since the 17th-century owner attempted to erase the name of the translator, Pirckheimer. Brunet IV, 955; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French, 450; Phillips Atlases, 366; Sabin 66485.
2° (405 x 282mm). 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, woodcut initials. (Some light browning or staining, notably to full-page diagrams and maps 11 and 19, slight worming along some folds.) 17th-century vellum (slight wear to extremities, some cracking). Provenance: partially erased inscription in Latin on verso of final leaf dated 11 April 1601, recording that the present work was bought for 4 silver coins from Mr A[..] Gordon.
The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus. The work divides into three parts; the text, comprising the new 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 used in Lorenz Fries's edition printed by Grüninger in 1522 (the final map is captioned with this date and Fries's initials), in Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1525 and in the first Trechsel edition printed at Lyons in 1535.
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 burnt on Calvin's orders. Michael Servetus, a Spanish theologian and physician, was burnt at the stake in 1553, condemned by Calvin for his doctrinal heresies. The provenance of this copy is interesting, since the 17th-century owner attempted to erase the name of the translator, Pirckheimer. Brunet IV, 955; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French, 450; Phillips Atlases, 366; Sabin 66485.
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