In hoc opere haec continentur Noua translatio primi libri Geographiae Cl. Ptolomaei

by Johannes Werner

$28,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Nuremberg: Johann Stuchs, 1514. First edition of Werner’s “most famous work on astronomy and geography” MacTutor , an extremely rare and highly influential work on cartography and navigation, notable for several ‘firsts’: it contains the first published direct translation of any part of Ptolemy’s Geography from the original Greek; the first publication of the Werner

• Binding: Hardcover

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