PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170). Geografia cioé descrittione universale della terra. Padua: Paolo and Francesco Galignani, 1621-1620. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (296 x 210mm). Engraved devices on titles, 63 half-page maps and woodcuts. (Lacking full-page engraved map, occasional browning and waterstaining, a few clean tears sometimes affecting text.) Modern vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly bowed, some stains).
THE FINAL EDITION, SECOND ITALIAN EDITION, of the Magini-Porro Ptolemaic atlas. 'The atlas is larger in size than the quarto Venetian publications, and the maps are printed on folio sheets with the text either above or below them' (Shirley). Philips, Atlases 405; Sabin 66506; Shirley BL T.PTOL-12c.
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170). Geografia cioé descrittione universale della terra. Padua: Paolo and Francesco Galignani, 1621-1620. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (296 x 210mm). Engraved devices on titles, 63 half-page maps and woodcuts. (Lacking full-page engraved map, occasional browning and waterstaining, a few clean tears sometimes affecting text.) Modern vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly bowed, some stains).
THE FINAL EDITION, SECOND ITALIAN EDITION, of the Magini-Porro Ptolemaic atlas. 'The atlas is larger in size than the quarto Venetian publications, and the maps are printed on folio sheets with the text either above or below them' (Shirley). Philips, Atlases 405; Sabin 66506; Shirley BL T.PTOL-12c.
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