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PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS) Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541 image 1
PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS) Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541 image 2
PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS) Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541 image 3
PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS) Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541 image 4
PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS) Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541 image 5
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PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)
Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541

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PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)

Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, woodcut printer's device on title-page, double-column text with woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations (2 full-page, one with image shaved), 50 woodcut maps (49 double-page, mounted on guards), with colophon leaves n4 and [2]h6, text with dampstain in upper margins of first few gatherings and some light browning, occasional light foxing and browning to maps (no. 31 more heavily browned), old inscription and stamp erased from title-page, contemporary wallet-style blindstamped sheep, restored and rebacked preserving original backstrip, metal fasteners with silk ties [cf. Mortimer, Harvard French, 450; Phillips Atlases 366; Sabin 66485], folio (400 x 270mm.), Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541

Footnotes

The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus, many copies of which are said to have been destroyed on Calvin's orders at the time of the execution of Servetus.

The maps are printed from unaltered woodblocks first used in Lorenz Fries's 1522 edition printed by Grüninger (the final map is captioned with this date and Fries's initials), then again in Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1525, and in the first Trechsel edition printed at Lyon in 1535. These double-page maps of the ancient and modern comprise: 10 of Europe, 4 of Africa, 12 of Asia, World map, New World, 2 further World maps and 19 others (including Britain and further maps of Africa, Asia and Europe, one with a single-page map on verso).

The maps featuring the Americas comprise: Tabula terre nova, number 28, with an account of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus on the verso; Norbegia et Gottia, number 34, showing Greenland as a peninsula of Europe; Tabula nova orbis, number 49, attributed by some to Columbus and known as the "Admiral's Map", and Tabula totius orbis, number 50, the celebrated new map of the world by Lorenz Fries, the first Ptolomeian map to use the name 'America', on a portion of the South American Continent.

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