Details
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Liber Geographiae cum tabulis et universali figura. Venice: J. Pentius de Leucho, 20 March 1511.
2° (425 x 285mm). Title printed in red, text in double column printed in red and black, initial spaces blank, 28 double-page woodcut maps printed in red and black, the cordiform world map bound in before the first book, 4 woodcut diagrams in the text. (Title spotted, other occasional light spotting and staining to margins, very slight shaving of the lower margin of the map of the British Isles). Eighteenth century German mottled half calf. Provenance: Marvyn Carton (morocco book-label).
FIRST VENETIAN EDITION of Ptolemy's Geographia, based on the Latin translation of Jacobus Angelus and edited by Bernardinus Sylvanus of Basle. Sylvanus amended Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries, and in printing the major place-names in red provided the earliest example of two colour printing in cartography. The cordiform map of the 'modern' world is the second printed world map in an edition of Ptolemy to show America. Nordenskiold II 204; Phillips Atlases 358; Sabin 7747; Shirley Mapping of the World 31, 32.
2° (425 x 285mm). Title printed in red, text in double column printed in red and black, initial spaces blank, 28 double-page woodcut maps printed in red and black, the cordiform world map bound in before the first book, 4 woodcut diagrams in the text. (Title spotted, other occasional light spotting and staining to margins, very slight shaving of the lower margin of the map of the British Isles). Eighteenth century German mottled half calf. Provenance: Marvyn Carton (morocco book-label).
FIRST VENETIAN EDITION of Ptolemy's Geographia, based on the Latin translation of Jacobus Angelus and edited by Bernardinus Sylvanus of Basle. Sylvanus amended Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries, and in printing the major place-names in red provided the earliest example of two colour printing in cartography. The cordiform map of the 'modern' world is the second printed world map in an edition of Ptolemy to show America. Nordenskiold II 204; Phillips Atlases 358; Sabin 7747; Shirley Mapping of the World 31, 32.