Geographia uniuersalis, uetus et noua, complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII Image Stanford University Public content

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quorum primus noua translatione Pirckheimeri & accessione commentarioli illustrior quàm hactenus fuerit, redditus est ; reliqui cum Graeco & alijs uetustis exemplaribus collati, in infinitis ferè locis castigatiores facti sunt ; addita sunt insuper scholia, quibus exoleta urbium, montium, fluuiorumq[ue] nomina ad nostri seculi morem expon "Third edition of Münster's Ptolemy, Pirckheimer's translation ... Each map contains descriptive text on the reverse, generally printed within ornamental woodcut borders, designed in the Holbein style ..."--Phillips, P.L.A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, p. 124. Colophon: Basilae per Henrichum Petrum mense Augusto, an. M.D. XLV. Includes 54 numbered maps on double leaves, with descriptive text on reverse of each map; paging begins with liber II; last leaf of liber I is a blank. Pirckheimer's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.
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