Ptolemaeus, Geografia, Venice, 1599, vellum

Claudius Ptolemaeus

Geografia... tradotta di Greco nell'idioma volgare italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli, et hore nuovamente ampliata da Gioseffo Rosaccio. Venice: heirs of Melchiorre Sessa, 1599 (1598)

4 parts in one volume, 4to (242 x 175mm.), woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations, 69 double-page engraved maps, old manuscript notes in Italian on front flyleaf, contemporary vellum, later spine lettering-piece, repaired wormhole in outer margin towards end of volume (resulting in some loss of text and image), binding slightly soiled, occasional light damp-staining

This is the fourth edition of Girolamo Ruscelli's translation, enlarged and edited by Giuseppe Rosaccio, with six entirely new maps, including Rosaccio's twin-hemispherical world map (Shirley, Mapping of the World 217). 

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Edit16 30988; Shirley T.PTOL 10g