PTOLEMAEUS CLAUDIUS Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo

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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo. Ornamental woodcut title-page, 50 woodcut maps (all but one double-page,) full-page armillary after Albrcht Durer, many woodcut designs and devices throughout the text. Folio, 14 3/4x10 1/4 inches, attractive modern vellum; some repaired loss and wear to title-page and first few leaves, maps on newer guards, final world map with minor worm tracking at centerfold. Strassburg: Johannes Gruninger and Johannes Koberger, 1525

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The fourth Strassburg edition, with translated and revised text by Wilibald Pirckheimer using the notes of Johannes Regiomontanus. The maps comprise 27 ancient representations according to Ptolemy and 23 "modern" maps. With the exception of the fifth Ptolemaic map of Asia, are all printed from the same woodblocks used for the Gruninger publication of 1522, themselves reduced versions modeled after the 1513 Waldseemuller edition. The modern world map by Laurentius Fries is one of the earliest maps in a Ptolemaic atlas on which the name "America" is used. Phillips, Atlases 362; Nordenskiold Collection 2:208.