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Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis libri octo. Sed ad Graeca & prisca exemplaria a Michaele Villanouano secundo recogniti & locis innumeris denuo castigati. Adiecta insuper ab eodem Scholia, quibus & difficilis ille Primus Liber nunc primum explicatur, & exoleta Urbium nomina ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur. Quinquaginta illae quoque cum veterum tum recentium Tabulae adnectuntur variisque incolentium ritus & mores explicantur. Accedit index locupletissimus hactenus non uisus. Prostant Lugduni Apud Hugonem a Porta. M.D.XLI. (1541)

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Description

Type of resource cartographic
Form cartographic material; map; unmediated; volume
Extent 1 atlas : 50 maps ; 41 x 28 cm
Place France
Place Prostant Lugduni [Leiden]
Place Vienne
Publisher Apud Hugonem a Porta, Gaspar Trechsel
Publication date 1541; 1541; 1541
Issuance monographic
Language Latin

Creators/Contributors

Associated with Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Publisher Fries, Lorenz, 1491-1550
Publisher Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553

Subjects

Subject Atlases > Early works to 1800
Subject World maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Classical geography > Maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Geography, Ancient > Maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Historical geography > Maps > Early works to 1800
Genre Map
Genre Cartographic image
Genre Atlases.
Genre Maps
Genre World maps.

Bibliographic information

Note Second edition of Michael Servetus' Ptolemy 's Geographia utilising Lorenz Fries's woodcut maps, was published by Gaspar Trechsel in Vienna, in 1541 and sold by Hughes de la Porte in Lyons. This atlas is divided into three parts: First, the text comprising the new Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer of the 1525 edition, which has been edited by Michael Servetus, for the first time for 1535 edition and the second time for this 1541 edition. The second part consists of 50 maps, comprising 27 Ptolemaic and 23 modern maps. The maps were printed from the same wooden blocks which were made for the first edition in 1522 by Lorenz Fries, the famous physician, astrologer and geographer, many with descriptive text on recto and verso. With half title index before or after the maps varies. A special feature of the 1541 edition is the missing text on verso of some modern maps. This is due to the action of Calvinism, especially since the text on verso of the Holy Land map provoked controversy. The third and final part consists of a comprehensive index. Many of the first three editions were burned, which led Servetus to abdicate on some text on the map versos. Maps Showing rivers, canals, waterways, place names, fortifications, and administrative boundaries. Relief shown pictorially. Some maps drawn in a trapezoidal projection.
Note References: Mickwitz, Ann-Maria (& others) ed. The A.E. Nordenskiold Collection..., II, 211.
Note World Atlas
Local note Pub list no.: 11325.000.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/ty736qh2781
Location electronic resource

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