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67 - Ptolomaeus (Claudius) Geographia, first edition of Giuseppe Moleti's Latin re-translation of Ptolemy, based on that of Bilibald Pirckheimer of 1525, collation: *4 A-O4 A-S8 [64 d-p maps with text to versos], A-H4, complete with blank leaf S8, title with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams, illustrations and initials, 64 double-page engraved maps after Giacomo Gastaldi, a few slightly shaved touching plate-mark at upper edge, some light water-staining, later blind-stamped calf, clasps, slightly rubbed, 4to (228 x 158mm.), Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.
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Ptolomaeus (Claudius) Geographia, first edition of Giuseppe Moleti's Latin re-translation of Ptolemy, based on that of Bilibald Pirckheimer of 1525, collation: *4 A-O4 A-S8 [64 d-p maps with text to versos], A-H4, complete with blank leaf S8, title with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams, illustrations and initials, 64 double-page engraved maps after Giacomo Gastaldi, a few slightly shaved touching plate-mark at upper edge, some light water-staining, later blind-stamped calf, clasps, slightly rubbed, 4to (228 x 158mm.), Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562. *** Provenance: Jo. Batty (from the monastery at Randa in Majorca, ink inscription at foot of title), beneath another half-erased inscription. Literature: Edit16 38139; Sabin 66489; Adams P-2231.
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