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La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. Espositioni et introduttioni universali sopra tutta le geografia di Tolomeo
Moleti, Giuseppe, 1531-1588. Discorso universale
Malombra, Gio. (Giovanni), editor
Ziletti, Giordano, active 16th century, printer
Vannoni, Bonifacio, former owner
Title
La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino
Publisher
In Venetia : Appresso Giordano Ziletti
Description
"Espositioni et introduttioni universali di Ieronimo Ruscelli sopra tutta la Geografia di Tolomeo" (56 p.) and "Discorso universale di M. Gioseppe Moleto" (47 p.) have separate title pages
Signatures (from Wilberforce): *-2*́þ [superscript pi]A-[superscript pi]H́þ A-2X́þ, ℗øA-℗ø2D℗ø ł-ʺ℗ø ́℗ø, ℗đA-℗đ2O℗ø, ́þA-́þǴþ ́þH́œ
Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials
Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum
Wilberforce, E. A list of editions of Ptolemy's Geography, 1475-1730
"The third edition of Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy, revised and corrected by Gio. Malombra, whose dedication is dated 'Il primo di Gennaio 1574.' With one exception, the 65 double-page copperplate maps, accompanied by descriptive text on the backs, are the same as those in two preceding editions, and in the Latin edition of 1562, having been printed from the same plates."--Wilberforce
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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early limp, tacketed vellum with fore-edge cover extensions. The title is inscribed at the head of the spine. All text block edges are gauffered. The bookplate of the Library is present on the front pastedown. An early inscription is struck out on the recto of the front free endpaper. Two early inscriptions are present on the title page: at the head, an illegible inscription in Latin or Italian and in the center of the page, the autograph of Bonifacio Vannoni ("Bonifacij Vannonij"), who also signed each of the special title pages. The perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page. The contents of this copy are bound in a different order than described by Wilberforce, with all of the folded plates of maps bound-in before the treatises by Ruscelli and Moleti. Two plates of maps (℗đN℗ø and ℗đR℗ø, i.e., the modern maps of Rome and of the North Atlantic) are wanting

Subjects: Geography
Language Italian
Publication date 1574
publication_date QS:P577,+1574-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
lageografiadicla00ptol
Notes Check-in notes: -Original material has undulated pages throughout; text/content is still legible. Pages 249 through 254 have irregular pagination in the original material. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1047440563
Source
Internet Archive identifier: lageografiadicla00ptol
https://archive.org/download/lageografiadicla00ptol/lageografiadicla00ptol.pdf
  • IA contributor: Boston Public Library

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