Ptolemaeus, Claudius

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Description

Ptolemaeus, Claudius
Geographicae enarrationis, libri octo. Lyon: Hugo a Porta and Vienne: Gaspar Trechsel, 1541
paper

Second Servetus edition, folio (410 x 270mm.), printed title with large woodcut device, 27 double-page maps of the ancient world, 22 double-page maps of the modern world, one full-page map of Lotharingia on verso of map 46, together 50 woodcut maps (mostly reduced from Martin Waldseemuller’s Strassburg edition), contemporary limp vellum, Trechsel’s name blacked out on title and colophon, some light overall browning, map no.23 (Tabula undecima Asiae) with large tear (without loss), binding becoming detached

Literature

cf. Nordenskiold Collection 2, 211; Phillips Atlases 366

Catalogue Note

The maps in this edition are from the same blocks as the editions of 1522, 1525 and 1535, but with the descriptive text omitted from several of the maps. Many copies of this, as well as the edition of 1535, are said to have been destroyed on Calvin's orders at the time of the execution of Servetus.