Ptolemaeus, Claudius. — Girolamo Ruscelli, ed.

La Geografia ... Con Espositioni del medesimo ... Aggiuntovi un pieno discorso di M. Gioseppe Moleto Matematico .... Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561



3 parts in one volume, 4to (9 x 6 in.; 228 x 152 mm). Printer's woodcut device on divisional titles and on verso of last map, 64 double-page engraved maps after Gastaldi consisting of 27 maps of the ancient world and 37 of the modern world, numerous woodcut diagrams in text; first title supplied from another copy and a bit short, some marginal dampstains and soiling in the maps, some marginal spotting, fore-edge spot in third work, small worm track in upper central margin of a few maps. 18th-century vellum, gold-stamped title on spine, dark-blue edges; one corner torn, a few stains. Red cloth drop-box.

Phillips 371; Sabin 66503

first title supplied from another copy and a bit short, some marginal dampstains and soiling in the maps, some marginal spotting, fore-edge spot in third work, small worm track in upper central margin of a few maps. 18th-century vellum, gold-stamped title on spine, dark-blue edges; one corner torn, a few stains.
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First edition of Ruscelli's translation. A new pocket edition of the Geographia with the Ptolemaic series of twenty-seven maps, followed by thirty-seven others illustrating contemporary knowledge.

The maps are mostly enlargements of Gastaldi, but among the "modern" maps in this edition is the world in twin hemispheres, the earliest of its kind to appear in an atlas [Shirley, Mapping of the World 110]. Other maps departing from Gastaldi are: Scandinavia (after Jakob Ziegler, 1532); Brasil (after Ramusio); the Arctic regions (based on the "Zeno" map, first published in woodcut in 1558); South Africa; and a navigational chart of the world [Shirley 111].