La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano...

A 16th century Ptolemy Atlas with 64 engraved maps. Published by Giordano Ziletti in Venice during the year 1564.

Reference 10869

Description

Third edition of Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy's Geografia and first edition published by G. Ziletti in 1564. The first two Ruscelli editions have been published 1561 and 1562 by V. Valgrisi. The maps of the first five editions of Ruscelli are printed from the same copper plates of Valgrisi and based on the G. Gastaldi edition of 1548.

Illustrated with 64 double page engraved maps and several woodcuts in text. Whereof 27 Ptolemy maps and 37 'modern' map, including 3 world maps (one Ptolemy /Shirley 109, two modern /Shirley 110, 111), 6 maps of America (South America, Mexico with Florida, Brazil, east coast of North America, Haiti, Cuba), 27 European maps (including the North-Atlantic map with parts of Labrador), 9 maps of Africa and 19 maps of Asia.

Details

Cartographer	Girolamo Ruscelli
Title	La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da Ieronimo Ruscelli.
Publisher, Year	Giordano Ziletti, Venice, 1564
Size	24.5 x 17.5 cm (9.6 x 6.9 inches), 4to
Collation	4 leaves, 358 pages, 1 leaf, 28 leaves, 24 leaves, 47 pages
Illustrations	64 double page copper engraved maps, several woodcuts in text
Cover	Calf binding with gilt on spine
Volume	3 parts in 1 volume
Reference	Shirley T.PTOL 10d

Condition

Bound in 18th Century calf, richly gilt on spine. Minor rubbed, some worming to lower spine.

The Greece map with an ink spot from printing process not affecting the image, minor waterstaining in lower white margin of the last leaves.

A very fine complete and clean copy of the Geographia with strong impression of the engravings. Manuscript ownership inscription to title 'Ex libris J:E:Harrach/ 1727'. Seems to be the bishop of Neutra (Hungary) Johann Ernst von Harrach (1705-1739).

Cartographer

Girolamo Ruscelli, an Italian Alchemist, physician and cartographer, was born around 1504 in Viterbo. He has revised the Ptolemy Geography, which was issued from 1561 until 1599 in Venice. The new copper engraved maps are based on G. Gastaldi's edition of 1548. He died 1566 in Venice.

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Girolamo Ruscelli: La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da Ieronimo Ruscelli..

A 16th century Ptolemy Atlas with 64 engraved maps. Published by Giordano Ziletti in Venice during the year 1564.

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