In Hoc Opere Haec Continentur Nova Translatio Primi Libri Geographiae Cl Ptolomaei Quae Quidem

by Claudius Ptolemaeus

$37,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1514. Numerous fine woodcut diagrams & tables in the text. 68 unnumbered leaves. Small folio, attractive antique calf title a little dusty , panelled in gilt & blind. Nuremberg: J. Stuchs, 1514 . First edition of a very scarce and little-known book because of its rarity, I think , which is of great importance in the history of cartography, navigation, and astronomy. It contains, amongst much else, the first published direct translation of any part

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.