Ptolemaeus, Claudius
La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandro
£5,292
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli ... Venice: Vincenzo Valgrifi, 1561. 4to (24 x 18cm), 64 maps, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to spine and initials to upper cover, 20th century ownership signature (Alan Stevenson) to paste-down endpaper, early ownership signature to title-page, some very light and minor marginal dampstaining, browning and occasional soiling in places, page numbers added in an early hand to unpaginated sections, maps neatly mounted on slightly later guards, a few binding anomolies not affecting the flow of the work, covers a little frayed [USTC 851489]
Footnote
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS
A complete copy of the first edition of Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy in contemporary vellum. Ptolemy's 'Geography' was rediscovered at the beginning of the fifteenth century and translated into Latin from the Greek, although none of Ptolemy's maps survived. Cartographers such as Giacomo Gastaldi recreated the maps from the descriptions, and the results can be seen here.