PTOLEMEE. - Lot 189

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PTOLEMEE. - Lot 189
PTOLEMEE. Geografia. Venice, Gio. Battista and Giorgio Galignani Fratelli, 1598-97. Two parts in one volume in folio of (2), 62, 21, (1 white),14 ff, ff 1-18, (1), ff [19] - 212, 30 ff, decorated modern pastiche calf. First edition in Italian, translated by Leonardo Cernoti, of the comments of the astronomer and cartographer Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) on the Geography of Ptolemy. 63 very beautiful in-text maps and an out-of-text world map, two thumbnails of titles. Diagrams and woodcut thumbnails in text. All the maps (27 for the ancient world and 36 for the modern world) were first published in 1596 in the first Latin edition with the exception of the four world maps engraved by Girolamo Porro, based on Valgrisi's edition (1561). The double-hemisphere map - "an exceptionally fine engraving" (Shirley) - is a reduction of Rumold Mercator's world map. Good copy. Stamps on the dedication sheet. Light marginal wetness on some leaves, moisture stains on the table leaves. Sabin, 66506; Phillips, Atlases, 405.
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