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Tolomeo, Claudio
The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, With some comments and additions made by Sebastiano, munstero Alamann, With not only the ancient and modern tables usually published, but also new ones added by Messer Iacopo Gastaldo Piamotese, 1548
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Venice, Giovan Battista Pedrezano (for Nicolò Bascarini), 1548 [October 1547]. In 8°. 172 x 116 mm. Title page within two allegorical borders, portrait of Ptolemy, dedication to Leone Strozzi, epistle To the Readers , Addition by Sebastiano Munstero ..., How Geography is different from Cosmography , Interpretation of some words , First book of Geography...these are the things it contains , Table of the Regions, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers ...at the end of the table the typographical mark, The First Book of Clausius Ptolemy - The Eighth Book , Register and typographical mark, 43 DOUBLE-PAGE TABLES (out of 60) depicting Europe, Asia, Africa and the New World, including the New Land, the New Spain, the New Land of Bacalos, the Island of Cuba, the New Spanish Island, the New Universal and the New Carta Marina , contemporary binding in limp parchment, tears and defects, handwritten title on the spine.
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First complete edition in Italian, first octavo edition .
The 1548 edition of Ptolemy (colophon dated October 1547) stands out from its predecessors in several respects. It is the first pocket-sized edition of the work, making it at least plausible that it accompanied an explorer. Sebastian Münster's commentary—a truly pan-European humanistic effort—and Ptolemy's text were both translated by Pietro Andrea Mattioli (Matthioli), best known as a botanist and translator of Dioscorides. Gastaldi's maps—who was also responsible for updating and adding modern place names, a monumental task reflected in the 127-page index—are unusually decorative and up-to-date, especially considering their small size. A substantial group of non-European maps is included, with a focus on the Silk Road and India (maps 46–53) and five maps of the Americas, including the first regional maps of North America. (The two world maps (one of which is a nautical chart) demonstrate the modern turn in world representation. Both continue to conceptualize America as connected to Asia, even as the globe itself begins to conceive of a caesura between northwest America and northeast Asia.
The 1548 edition of Ptolemy (colophon dated October 1547) stands out from its predecessors in several respects. It is the first pocket-sized edition of the work, making it at least plausible that it accompanied an explorer. Sebastian Münster's commentary—a truly pan-European humanistic effort—and Ptolemy's text were both translated by Pietro Andrea Mattioli (Matthioli), best known as a botanist and translator of Dioscorides. Gastaldi's maps—who was also responsible for updating and adding modern place names, a monumental task reflected in the 127-page index—are unusually decorative and up-to-date, especially considering their small size. A substantial group of non-European maps is included, with a focus on the Silk Road and India (maps 46–53) and five maps of the Americas, including the first regional maps of North America. (The two world maps (one of which is a nautical chart) demonstrate the modern turn in world representation. Both continue to conceptualize America as connected to Asia, even as the globe itself begins to conceive of a caesura between northwest America and northeast Asia.
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