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Ptolemy, Claudius. Geographicae enarrationis, libri octo. Lyon and Vienna, La Porte and Trechsel, 1541. In 2nd (380 x 278 mm);149, [3], [96] pages. 48 double-page maps except 46-47 (maps 49 and 50 missing, small woodworm hole in white inner margin of two maps, slight halo to index). Seventeenth-century leather binding with gilt friezes on spine, red boards (stripping). Censored specimen on title page of this second edition edited by Miguel Servet with translation edited byWilibald Pirckheimer. Most of the maps are derived from the maps used in Lorenz Fries' 1522 edition printed by Grüninger. Maps 28 and 34 concern the American continent.
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Ptolemy, Claudius. Geographicae enarrationis, libri octo. Lyon and Vienna, La Porte and Trechsel, 1541. In 2nd (380 x 278 mm);149, [3], [96] pages. 48 double-page maps except 46-47 (maps 49 and 50 missing, small woodworm hole in white inner margin of two maps, slight halo to index). Seventeenth-century leather binding with gilt friezes on spine, red boards (stripping). Censored specimen on title page of this second edition edited by Miguel Servet with translation edited byWilibald Pirckheimer. Most of the maps are derived from the maps used in Lorenz Fries' 1522 edition printed by Grüninger. Maps 28 and 34 concern the American continent.
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