Ptolemaeus, Claudius.

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Geographiae libri octo graeco-latini. Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius, 1605

folio (415 x 275mm.), [40], 215, [33]pp., parallel Greek and Latin text, illustration: engraved title, 28 engraved maps (all but one double-page), portrait of Mercator, woodcut initials, all in contemporary hand colour, binding: contemporary Dutch vellum, gilt, a few splits at lower fold, light creasing and some marginal soiling, lacking ties

Literature

Koeman II, Mer 3; Phillips, Atlases 421; Shirley, British Library T.PTOL-11f

Catalogue Note

first edition with parallel greek and latin text, and the first edited by petrus montanus.

This is also the first book printed in greek at amsterdam. The imprint is the third variant as described by Koeman.