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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. [Geographicae enarrationis libri octo. Vienna and Lyons: Gaspar Trechsel for Hugues de La Porte, 1541.]
2o (392 x 271 mm). 47 (of 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 by Albrecht Dürer (l4 verso), woodcut initials. (Lacks title and maps 35 and 36 [Italy], leaves in first gathering with marginal repairs affecting some letters). Modern quarter polished calf.
The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus. 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 (see previous lot). Adams P-226; Brunet IV:955; see Mortimer/Harvard French 450; Phillips Atlases 366; Sabin 66485.
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The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus. 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 (see previous lot). Adams P-226; Brunet IV:955; see Mortimer/Harvard French 450; Phillips Atlases 366; Sabin 66485.