| Sebastian Munster — Geographiae Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini, Philosophi Ac Mathematici Praestatssimi, Libri VIII, Patrim a Biblibaldo Pirckheymero Translati. Tabulae Nouae Quae Hactenus in Nulla Ptolemaica Editione Usiae sunt, Per Sebastianum Munsterum |
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Geographiae Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini, Philosophi Ac Mathematici Praestatssimi, Libri VIII, Patrim a Biblibaldo Pirckheymero Translati. Tabulae Nouae Quae Hactenus in Nulla Ptolemaica Editione Usiae sunt, Per Sebastianum Munsterum |
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Officina Henrichi Petri, Basel, 1552. 4th Edition. Folio (12 x 8 inches). Letterpress title-page, woodcut portrait of the author, and 27 fine double-page woodcut maps of the old world, and 27 of the new world, including one folding, ALL WITH FINE CONTEMPORARY HAND COLOR and with letterpress descriptive text on rectos within decorative woodcut borders, woodcut diagrams in the text and initials (some minor marginal soiling). Contemporary paneled calf , each cover decorated with blind borders of triple fillet and gilt fleurons and fine central gilt oval medallion (rebacked to style, corners strengthened, some minor surface wear). Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations. Fourth edition, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, and an EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY with beautifully hand colored maps. The map of America is in Burden's 6th state. Muenster was one of the most influential cartographers in the sixteenth century. He published his first edition of Ptolemy's Geography in 1540, including a set of continental maps for the first time. Muenster was also the first to create space in the woodblock for the insertion of place-names in metal type. Burden 12, 13; Nördenkiold Collection 2:215; Philips, "Atlases" 370; Shirley 92. |
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