BEIN GGfp94 gf525b: Imperfect: maps 29-31, 34-36 wanting. Inscription on title page: Ex libris Jeremiae[?] Duvernoy ... 1628. Scant marginal manuscript annotations.

BEIN 1977 Folio 127: Armorial bookplate: C.L.F. Robinson. Printed label on inside front cover: 4536.

Colophon on p. [2], 2nd count, reads: Excvdebant Lvgdvni Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel fratres. M. D. XXXV.

First printed in Latin in Vicenza in 1475 without maps; the maps from engraved copperplates were first included in the Bologna, 1477 edition.

According to Stevens, this edition was edited by Michael Villanovanus, better known as Servetus. The woodcut borders and ornaments are said to be the work of Hans Holbein and Graf of Basel and differ in places from the Strasbourg, 1525 edition. Many copies of this book are said to have been burned by order of Calvin at the time of the execution of Michael Servetus in 1553. The translation is again that of Willibald Pirckheimer; the final map [50]. Orbis typvs vniversalis ivxta hydrographorvm traditionem. Exactissime depicta 1522 was executed by Lorenz Fries (Laurentius Fries or Phrisius), a physician and mathematician from Metz; he added the text on the rectos and sometimes versos of the outer form of the double maps, which appear in the Strasbourg editions of 1522 and 1525.

Philips in his List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress notes that it was the text on the verso of map 41. Tab[vla] Ter[rae] Sanctae which contained the passage which was used in one of the charges against Michael Servitus when he was burned at the stake in 1553. This passage was, however, not original with Servetus but was copied from the editions of 1522 and 1525.

According to Stevens and Philips, the woodcut maps in this edition were copies from the Martin Waldseemüller maps contained in the Strasbourg, 1513 and the 1522 editions but printed in a smaller scale. Maps [1]. Generale Ptho[lemei] and map [50]. Orbis typvs vniversalis ivxta hydrographorvm traditionem. Exactissime depicta 1522 are the first and last, respectively, to appear in this edition, without the text on the recto and/or verso of the outer form. All other maps have descriptive text on either the recto and verso, or sometimes just the recto of the outer form, except for map [36]. Tab[vla] nova Norbegiae et Gotthia on which the map of [Lotharingia] appears on the verso of the outer form; the order of maps in this edition is indicated by a numerical designation following the text on the recto of each;

"Index Ptolemaei copiosissimvs qvo diligens ac studiosus quisq[ue] omnia terrarum, marium, ac singulorum, in his contentorum, diuersarum uidelicet regionum, prouinciarum seu pr[a]efecturarum, urbium, oppidoru[m], castrorum, promontorioru[m], montium, nemorum, sylvaru[m], specuum, aquaru[m], fluminum, fluuioru[m]que, stagnorum, fontium, lacuu[m] & riparum nomina & situs, caeterosq[ue] multiplices huius operis fructus, certis & notissimis indicijs facillime ac citra tedium explorare queat. Adiecta insuper praxis ad distantiam inter duas ciuitates & duo quaeuis loca, in quocunq[ue] climate contineantur, per cuiusuis generis miliaria dimetiendam", p. [1-76], 3rd count, has divisional title page.

The maps are bound between the Servetus translation of Plolemy's Geographia on p. [1]-149 and [1-3], 1st and 2nd counts and the "Index Ptolemaei copiosissim " on p. [1-76], 3rd count; the maps which show American in this edition are: 28. Oceani occidentalis seu Terrae Novae tabvla , which has some slight changes from the Waldseemüller map of 1522, and has the descriptve text on the recto and verso of the map giving an account of the voyages of Columbus and 50. Orbis typvs vniversalis ivxta hydrographorvm traditionem. Exactissime depicta. 1522, which was executed by Lorenz Fries and is the first map with the name "America", inscribed on the continent of South America, which appeared in an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia; map 40 in the 1525 edition is named "Tabvla moder[na] Asiae Minoris ", while here is is named "De Mahometo et Tvrcarvm origine et moribus".

Maps show pictorial relief.

Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁴ (n4 verso blank) A-E⁶ F⁸ (F8 verso blank).

Errors in pagination: p. 18, 1st count, misnumbered 13.

Errata: p. [75], 3rd count.

Text of Ptolemy's Geographia and the Index Ptolemaei printed in two parallel columns; a full column has 56 lines of text.

Woodcut printer's device on title page and divisional title page; rubricated initials; the descriptive text on the rectos of the outer forms of the double maps is often framed by an ornamental woodcut border and includes woodcut head and tail piece vignettes, and/or versos of the outer forms of the double maps; contains numerous woodcut diagrams within the text and full page woodcuts on p. 128 and 129, 1st count..

Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis libri octo

Geographicae enarrationis libri octo

(Titles of maps from head of map or from descriptive text on recto of outer forms of double maps) 1. Tabvla I Evropae

2. Tabvla II Evropae

3. Tabvla III Evropae

4. Tabvla IIII Evropae

5. Tabvla V Evropae

6. Tabvla VI Evropae

7. Tabvla VII Evrop[ae]

8. Tabvla VIII Evrop[ae]

9. Tabvla IX Evropae

10. Tabvla X Evropae

11. Tabvla I Aphricae

12. Tabvla II Aphricae

13. Tabvla III Aphricae

14. Tabvla IIII Aphricae

15. Tabvla I Asiae

16. Tabvla II Asiae

17. Tabvla III Asiae

18. Tabvla IIII Asiae

19. Tavbla V Asiae

20. Tabvla VI Asiae

21. Tabvla VII Asiae

22. Tabvla VIII Asiae

23. Tabvla IX Asiae

24. Tabvla X Asiae

25. Tabvla XI Asiae

26. Tabvla XII Asiae

27. [Generale Ptholemei]

28. Oceani occidentalis seu Terrae novae tabvla

29. Tabvla nova Hyberniae Angliae et Scotiae

30. Tab[vla] mo[derna] Hispa[niae]

31. Ta[bvla] nova Galliae

32. Tab[vla] mo[derna] Germa[niae]

33. Tabv[la] moderna Hungariae, Poloniae, Russiae, Prussiae, et Valachiae

34. Tab[vla] nova Norbegiae et Gotth[]iae

35. Tab[vla mo[derna] Italiae Corsicae et Sardiniae

36. Tab[vla] no[va] Italiae

37. Tabvla moder[na] Bossinae, Serviae, Greciae, et Sclauoniae, et primo de Graecia

38. Tab[vla] mo[derna] primae partis Aphricae

39. Ta[bula] mo[derna] secvndae partis Aphricae

40. De Mahometo et Tvrcarvm origine et moribus

41. Tab[vla] Ter[rae] Sanctae

42. Tabvla moder[na] Indiae orientalis

43. Ta[bvla] svperioris Indiae et Tartariae Maioris

44. Tabv[la] moder[na] Indiae

45. Ta[bvla] Here[mi] Helve[tiorvm]

46 and 47. Tabvla nova provintiae Rheni with [Lotharingia]

48. Tabvla neoterica Cretae siue Candiae

49. Tabvla moder[na] Gronlandiae et Rvssiae

[50]. Orbis typvs vniversalis ivxta hydrographorvm traditionem. Exactissime depicta. 1522.

Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world (4th ed.), 47

Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world (4th ed.), 48

Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world (4th ed.), 49

List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 364

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 66483

Stevens, H.N. Ptolemy's geography: a brief account of all the printed editions down to 1730, p. 48

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I: p. 119

European Americana, 535/14

Geography, Ancient > Maps.

America > Geography.

America > Geography > Maps.

America > Discovery and exploration > Italian.

Annotations (Provenance) - 17th century.

Armorial bookplates (Provenance)

Atlases.

France Lyon.