![PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178). Geographicae enarrationis libri octo. Retranslated by Wilibald Pirckheimer. Edited by Michael Villanovanus [Servetus]. Lyon: Melchior and Gasper Trechsel, 1535.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0290_001(ptolemaeus_claudius_geographicae_enarrationis_libri_octo_retranslated024917).jpg?w=1)
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.178). Geographicae enarrationis libri octo. Retranslated by Wilibald Pirckheimer. Edited by Michael Villanovanus [Servetus]. Lyon: Melchior and Gasper Trechsel, 1535.
2° (408 x 285 mm). Large woodcut on title; colophon leaf n4 present. 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, most with text on versos enclosed within elaborate woodcut borders [said to be the work of Hans Holbein and Urs Graf]; 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. (Variable light browning, heavier to quire h and map 14 of India, light marginal staining to a few leaves, heavier to D5-E1 of index and just into text at gutter.) Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, bevelled edges, (lacking clasps, repaired tear to bottom right-hand corner of upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed, heavier to head- and tailcaps with former just fraying). Provenance: H.A. Bright (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF PTOLEMY EDITED BY MICHAEL 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. Four of the maps, including two maps of the modern world, relate to the Americas. Alden & Landis 535/14; Phillips Atlases 364; Sabin 66483.
2° (408 x 285 mm). Large woodcut on title; colophon leaf n4 present. 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, most with text on versos enclosed within elaborate woodcut borders [said to be the work of Hans Holbein and Urs Graf]; 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. (Variable light browning, heavier to quire h and map 14 of India, light marginal staining to a few leaves, heavier to D5-E1 of index and just into text at gutter.) Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, bevelled edges, (lacking clasps, repaired tear to bottom right-hand corner of upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed, heavier to head- and tailcaps with former just fraying). Provenance: H.A. Bright (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF PTOLEMY EDITED BY MICHAEL 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. Four of the maps, including two maps of the modern world, relate to the Americas. Alden & Landis 535/14; Phillips Atlases 364; Sabin 66483.
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