Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PTOLEMAUS, CLAUDIUS; MAGINI, G.A., ed.; CERNOTI, LEONARDO, trans. Geografia Cioè Descrittione Universale Della Terra. Folding double-hemispheric world map and 63 half-page maps engraved by Girolamo Porro, title-pages with engraved cartographic vignettes, woodcut diagrams in text, [2], 62, 21, [15]; 212, [30] leaves with blank dd4. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 11 1/2x8 inches, contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in ink, lightly darkened, spine ends and foredge chipped with some small losses, block separated from casing; few gatherings lightly toned, occasional light spotting or marginal dampstain, small corner loss to cc6, short marginal tear to T6, small stain with wormholes on X2 minimally affecting margins of preceding and following leaves, Bb4 with loss at upper corner slightly affecting text. Venice: Giovanni Battista & Giorgio Galignani Fratelli, 1598-1597
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First Italian translation of Giovanni Antonio Magini's 1596 edition of Ptolemy. The finely engraved double-hemispheric world map is derived from Rumold Mercator; 27 maps pertain to ancient geography and 36 represent the modern world. Philips, Atlases 405; Shirley 193-196.