Mercator (Gerard) - Ptolemaeus (Claudius). Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini, Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai (i.e. Claesz) & Jodocus Hondius 1605, engraved title, engraved half-page portrait of Gerard Mercator, 28 engraved maps by Mercator, all but one double-page, illustrations, Great Britain map with lower corner torn away, occasional small pale marginal water stain, 18th century calf, spine with raised bands, morocco label and gilt decoration, upper cover detached, small wormtrack, edges a little rubbed, folio, 41.5 x 28 cm (Qty: 1) Koeman II Me 3 (variant c). The first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with parallel Latin and Greek text. 'The Ptolemy edition of 1605 is the first work printed in Greek in Amsterdam and a typographic masterpiece.' (Koeman). Gerard Mercator had first engraved the maps for the 1578 edition, adding the single-page map of the Nile delta. Following his death his stock of maps was acquired by Jodocus Hondius in 1604 and together with Cornelis Claesz produced this atlas in 1605.
Mercator (Gerard) - Ptolemaeus (Claudius). Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini, Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai (i.e. Claesz) & Jodocus Hondius 1605, engraved title, engraved half-page portrait of Gerard Mercator, 28 engraved maps by Mercator, all but one double-page, illustrations, Great Britain map with lower corner torn away, occasional small pale marginal water stain, 18th century calf, spine with raised bands, morocco label and gilt decoration, upper cover detached, small wormtrack, edges a little rubbed, folio, 41.5 x 28 cm (Qty: 1) Koeman II Me 3 (variant c). The first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with parallel Latin and Greek text. 'The Ptolemy edition of 1605 is the first work printed in Greek in Amsterdam and a typographic masterpiece.' (Koeman). Gerard Mercator had first engraved the maps for the 1578 edition, adding the single-page map of the Nile delta. Following his death his stock of maps was acquired by Jodocus Hondius in 1604 and together with Cornelis Claesz produced this atlas in 1605.
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