Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicæ enarrationis, libri octo
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Type of record: Book
Title: Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicæ enarrationis, libri octo
Other titles: Geographia; Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
Classmark: Ripon Cathedral Library XI.E.2/q
Creator(s): Ptolemy
Additional creator(s): Pirckheimer, Willibald (1470-1530) (Other); Servetus, Michael (1511?-1553) (Other)
Related people: Pirckheimer, Willibald; Servetus, Michael
Publisher: Apud Hugonem à Porta
Publication city: Prostant Lugduni
Date(s): 1541
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 149, [293] p. (last page blank)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/254827
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016201939705181
Collection group(s): Ripon Cathedral
Description
A second edition of the Ptolemy of Servetus, the first being that of 1535. The maps are from the same blocks as in the editions of Laurentius Fries in 1522 and W. Pirckheimer in 1525, both of which were printed in Strasburg. There are 50 maps, the fiftieth being the new map of the world produced by L. Fries in 1522, remarkable as being the first map with the name America that appeared in Ptolemy's work. The name is inscribed on a portion of the South American continent.--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, p. 130.
Colophon on p. [2] and p. [292]: Viennae : Excudebat Gaspar Treschel,M.D.XLI [1541].
Woodcut of armillary sphere, p. 128, by Albrecht Dürer.
Includes index.
Sabin 66485.
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