Watch Bruce show a 1574 edition of Ptolemys Geographia

3 parts in 1. [76], 350; 54; 65 pp. With 65 double-page copper-engraved maps. (4to) 8½x6¼, period full vellum, new endpapers.
Third edition of Ruscelli's important Italian translation of Ptolemy's Geography, with 65 double-page copper-engraved maps (including a map of Rome not in the previous Ruscelli editions of 1561 and 1564); 27 of the maps are the "classic" Ptolemaic maps, and 38 are "modern" maps, 10 of which relate to the Americas. The maps are enlarged copies of the maps created by Giacomo Gastaldi for his 1548 edition of Ptolemy. Among the maps relating to the Americas are "Tiera Nueva, de los Bacalaos" (east coast from Carolinas to Newfoundland), Nueva Hispania (Central America to southern half of present U.S.), two world maps including North and South America, etc. The two sections at the end are the "Espositioni et Introductioni Universali, de Girolamo Ruscelli," and "Discorso de M. Gioseppe Moleto..." Phillips Atlases 380.

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