A fine example of the first ‘pocket atlas’
Ptolemeo. La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fatteui da Sebastiano munstero Alamanno, Con le tavole non solamente antiche & moderne solite di stãparsi, ma altre nuove aggiunteui di Mester Jacapo Gastaldo Piamõtese cosmographo, ridotta in volgare italiano da M. Pietro Andrea Mattioli senese medico eccellentissimo.
Venice: Giovanni Baptista Pedrezano, 1548. 8vo, later full vellum with maroon morocco title label, a.e.g.; title with wood-engr. decoration, pp. (xiv)+216 numbered leaves, 60 double-page maps with text on verso, (128p.)(geographical index). Several woodcut text illustrations.
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An important edition of Ptolemy atlas, with maps engraved by Gastaldi derived from Munster's woodcuts, supplemented with 34 'modern' maps. This work was not only the first pocket atlas and the first intaglio Ptolemy edition since Berlingheri in 1482, it also contained the first two engraved maps devoted to North America, leading Nordenskiöld to call it 'The very first atlas of the new world'. The text is Ptolemy's Geography and Munster's Commentaries, both translated into Italian by Piero Andrea Mattioli, the famous botanist.
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Occasional old ink annotations, library stamp on title and reverse of one map.Related products
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