GEOGRAFIA DI TOLOMEO - RUSCELLI - 1541 IN QUARTO
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LA GEOGRAFIA DI CLAUDIO TOLOMEO ALESSANDRINO Nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Latino Da GIROLAMO RUSCELLI Con espositione del medesimo, particolari di luogo in luogo, & universali sopra tutto il libro, et sopra tutta la GEOGRAFIA, o modo di far la descrittione di tutto il mondo... IN VENETIA Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, MDLXI In -4° (225x150); three parts with (8), 358, (2) pages , followed by 27 calcographic maps showing the ancient world; (56) pages followed by 37 27 calcographic maps showing the modern world. 47, (48) pages for the "Tavola deâe(tm) nomi delle Provincie, Città , Mari, Fiumi, Monti..." for a total of 64 27 calcographic maps carved with burin in double pages . A lot of tecnical woodcut inlustration in the text. Bound with Venetian leather of XVII century with decoration, golden title at the ribbed back; edge sprinkled in red. Very beautiful copy, with omissible and sporadic flourishing. Scarce first edition with the translation of Ruscelli anf first Atlas with modern map of the world printed in two emisps (Shirley, Mapping of the world 110). The first part trats of cosmography, then t are descibed the parts of the world. The modern cartographic section shows the description and the coordinates on the back of engraved pages. Four of the 37 modern maps are unpublished , and were not deduced from the Gastaldiâ
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