La Geografia… Con le tavole non solamente antiche &moderne… ma altre nuove aggiunteui di Messer Iacopo Gastaldo…ridotta in volgare Italiano da M. Pietro Andrea Mattiolo
Venice: Nicolo Bascarini for Giovanbattista Pedrezano, October 1547-1548.] 8vo (168 x 105 mm). [4], 215, [1], 120, 64 (i.e., 404 of 408). Woodcut printer's device to colophon dated 1547 as usual (DD7) and to verso of final leaf (h8v), and woodcut of Ptolemy as astronomer to *2. With a dedication by Gastaldi to Leone Strozzi dated 2 January 1548. 60 numbered double-page engraved maps, of which 34 are non-Ptolemaic and based on Munster's woodcuts of 1540. 19th-century vellum, a remboîtage , with ms. title and date to spine. Condition : lacking the four leaves of index in the first signature, the first three leaves including title and blank tipped-in, two ownership inscriptions excised from title the whole backed with laid paper, resulting in minor gum stains to woodcut portrait of Ptolemy on proximate leaf, browning to sig. A, tear to top edge D7-E2, loss at lower corner of Y8, mild foxing and dampstaining throughout; maps with old restoration, some with later additions in pencil, centerfolds of many maps strengthened and restored, worming at upper gutter of no. 16-17 and 19-23 affecting maps, small hole to map 42 affecting "E" in the heading "ASIE, wormhole to h7-8 (final leaves) affecting a few words. Provenance: Sotheby's Milan, May 15, 1995, lot 1281, $2,850 an interesting pocket ptolemy incorporating preliminary leaves from the first italian edition . Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the Siennese physician and botanist, translated Ptolemy’s seminal text from the Greek. The copperplate maps by Jacopo Gastaldi combine Ptolemaic elements and new cosmographical concepts derived from Sebastian Münster’s map of the Western hemisphere (1540). "A whole series of plates of the New World is here met with, for the first time, and some of them are of no slight interest to the history of geography" (Nordenskiöld). Phillips Atlases I, 125; Sabin 66502; Mortimer Italian 404.
La Geografia… Con le tavole non solamente antiche &moderne… ma altre nuove aggiunteui di Messer Iacopo Gastaldo…ridotta in volgare Italiano da M. Pietro Andrea Mattiolo
Venice: Nicolo Bascarini for Giovanbattista Pedrezano, October 1547-1548.] 8vo (168 x 105 mm). [4], 215, [1], 120, 64 (i.e., 404 of 408). Woodcut printer's device to colophon dated 1547 as usual (DD7) and to verso of final leaf (h8v), and woodcut of Ptolemy as astronomer to *2. With a dedication by Gastaldi to Leone Strozzi dated 2 January 1548. 60 numbered double-page engraved maps, of which 34 are non-Ptolemaic and based on Munster's woodcuts of 1540. 19th-century vellum, a remboîtage , with ms. title and date to spine. Condition : lacking the four leaves of index in the first signature, the first three leaves including title and blank tipped-in, two ownership inscriptions excised from title the whole backed with laid paper, resulting in minor gum stains to woodcut portrait of Ptolemy on proximate leaf, browning to sig. A, tear to top edge D7-E2, loss at lower corner of Y8, mild foxing and dampstaining throughout; maps with old restoration, some with later additions in pencil, centerfolds of many maps strengthened and restored, worming at upper gutter of no. 16-17 and 19-23 affecting maps, small hole to map 42 affecting "E" in the heading "ASIE, wormhole to h7-8 (final leaves) affecting a few words. Provenance: Sotheby's Milan, May 15, 1995, lot 1281, $2,850 an interesting pocket ptolemy incorporating preliminary leaves from the first italian edition . Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the Siennese physician and botanist, translated Ptolemy’s seminal text from the Greek. The copperplate maps by Jacopo Gastaldi combine Ptolemaic elements and new cosmographical concepts derived from Sebastian Münster’s map of the Western hemisphere (1540). "A whole series of plates of the New World is here met with, for the first time, and some of them are of no slight interest to the history of geography" (Nordenskiöld). Phillips Atlases I, 125; Sabin 66502; Mortimer Italian 404.
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