ATLAS. PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS - MAGINI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. GEOGRAFIA CIOE DESCRITTIONE UNIVERSALE DELLA TERRA PARTITA IN DUE VOLUMI... by MAGINI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO - 1597-98: ATLAS. PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS - MAGINI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. Geografia cioe descrittione universale della terra partita in due volumi... Venetia (Gio. Battista, & Giorgio Galignani fratelli) 1598, 1597. 2 parts in one volume.

ATLAS. PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS - MAGINI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. Geografia cioe descrittione universale della terra partita in due volumi... Venetia (Gio. Battista, & Giorgio Galignani fratelli) 1598, 1597. 2 parts in one volume.

Folio (290198 mm). (16), (1)-62, (1)-21, (1 blank) ll.; (1)-212, (30) ll. Two title leaves with engraved printer's devices, 63 engraved half-page maps (lacking the full-page world map, a few with foxing and staining), woodcut diagrams, initials and printed illustrations in first part.

Contemporary vellum, worn, spine with gilt title on red leather label, upper cover damaged in lower part, partly warped covers, redspeckled edges. Title to part I with new margin (old paper) to outer margin, small hole to inner margin and some minor staining. A few loose leaves in the beginning, some leaves in the beginning with minor holes or dampstaining to inner margin, some leaves strengthened in inner margin. Three leaves mended in upper outer corner, 1 leaf trimmed with no loss, some foxing and marginal dampstaining. Some notes in pencil on inside of cover.

First Italian edition of Magini's Ptolemy. This edition was translated from Latin by Leonardo Cernoti, followed by the commentary of Magini, and an extensive index. Part II gives us 27 maps of the world as Ptolemy knew it, followed by 36 maps, engraved by Girolamo Porro, of the world as it was known to Magini.

The three important mps (missing Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio) are after Mercator and Ortelius, each and the map of America in chapter XXXIIII (18 pges), show Chili with a distinctive bulge. Ptolemy's Geography, arguably the most influential cartographic account of the ancient world, was the point of reference for all Renaissance mapmakers. His compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire during his time (ca 90-168 ad). He relied on the work of others, in particular an early geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the Roman and ancient Persian Empire. He was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet (of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology). He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid. He died in Alexandria. The earliest known manuscripts of Ptolomy's "Geographia" date to about 1300. The first printed version was published in 1477, then 1488, and in Ulm in 1482. The present edition, published at the end of the 16th century, reflects the most important discoveries of that era.

Magini's edition of Ptolemy originally appeared in Venice 1596.

Lacking the full-page engraved double hemisphaere world map "Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio".

A VERY GOOD COPY EVEN IF LACKING ONE WORLD MAP, VERY RARE.

4500 EUR