PTOLEMY (Claudius). & RUSCELLI (Girolamo).

Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Tradotto di Greco nell'Idioma Volgare Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli, et hora nuouamente ampliata de Gioseffo Rosaccio ...

Quarto (227 x 165 mm); [4], [32], 42, 186, 144, [28] leaves, with a woodcut globe and table, text diagrams and sixty-nine maps, twenty-seven Ptolemaic and forty-two modern; the text in three parts, the Geografia, the ‘Descrittione della Geografia Universale, con Tavole Quarantadue d’intaglio de rame … con Discorsi fatti da Gioseppe Rosaccio’ and ‘Espositioni et Introduttioni Universale di Girolamo Ruscelli sopra la Geografia’, 1598. 18th century mottled calf, gilt, with red morocco label and floral decoration to spine. Front joint split at head, some mild worming to spine, extremities rubbed. The title spotted, but the text generally clean. Some light waterstaining towards the rear. Venice : Heirs of Melchior Sessa, 1599.

£8,000.00

Seventh edition of Ruscelli’s version of Ptolemy, the fifth in Italian. As with the 1598 edition, it was edited by Rosaccio, and retains the additional suite of World and Continent maps after Abraham Ortelius.

References: Shirley, T.PTOL-10g; Nordenskiold Collection Catalogue, III, 228.

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223289