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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170). Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Tradotta di Greco nell'Idioma Volgare Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli, et hora nuovamente ampliata da Gioseffo Rosaccio. Venice: heirs of Melchior Sessa, 1599. 4 parts in one volume, 4° (243 x 174mm). Woodcut device on titles, woodcuts and 69 engraved double-page maps. (Title strengthened with old paper at margin, minor marginal worming from beginning through to **1 and from 3.Cc-3.Hh, small marginal chip to 3.Mm1, 2 maps with tiny stains.) Later, possibly 18th-century, vellum (extremities lightly rubbed, spine more heavily with defective patches to upper joint and evidence of classmark erasure to foot, very minor worming to upper cover, extending into endpapers). Provenance: Franciscans, ?Champagne (ink inscription to title).
Fourth revised and augmented edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy, with FIVE ENTIRELY NEW MAPS, INCLUDING ONE OF THE AMERICAS. Many of the other maps that previously appeared in the 1561, 1562, 1564 and 1574 editions are here found reworked with the addition of new toponyms and figures of ships, fishes, etc. This is the second issue of this edition, the BL possessing a copy with a title dated 1598. Adams P-2237; Sabin 66507.
Fourth revised and augmented edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy, with FIVE ENTIRELY NEW MAPS, INCLUDING ONE OF THE AMERICAS. Many of the other maps that previously appeared in the 1561, 1562, 1564 and 1574 editions are here found reworked with the addition of new toponyms and figures of ships, fishes, etc. This is the second issue of this edition, the BL possessing a copy with a title dated 1598. Adams P-2237; Sabin 66507.