La Geografia. nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli

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3 parts in one volume. 4to., (9 2/8 x 6 2/8 inches). Woodcut printer's devices on title-pages and at end of part 2, 64 engraved double-page maps mounted on guards, comprising 27 maps of the ancient world and 37 maps of the modern world with letterpress descriptive text on rectos, woodcut diagrams throughout, woodcut initials (first title-page supplied, and a bit short, some light, mostly marginal waterstaining throughout, front endpaper with wormtracks). Contemporary vellum over paste-board, title lettered in gilt on the spine (a bit marked); preserved in a modern red cloth clamshell box. Provenance: obscured contemporary Italian ownership inscription and ink library stamp offset onto front free endpaper from original title-page; replaced title-page with the ink library stamp of the convent of San Michele in Bosco, Bologna at the foot. First edition of Girolamo Ruscelli's Italian translation of Ptolemy's "Geography". Most of the maps are enlarged copies of the Gastaldi maps from the Venice 1548 edition made by Giulio and Livio Sanuto: notable maps include: "Septemtronalum partium nova tabula" , a reduced version of the Nicolo Zeno map of the North Atlantic Ocean of 1558 and including many ficticious islands; "Tierra Nueva", a map of the east coast of North America showing the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers; "Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova" showing the Yucatan as a peninsula; other maps of America are "Tierra Nova showing South America, "Brasil Nuova Tavola", "Isola Cuba Nova", and "Isola Spagnola Nova"; "India Tercera Nuova Tavola" shows the East Indies; and "Orbis Discriptio" the twin hemisphere new world map, which as Shirley reports, is the earliest of its kind to appear in an atlas, shows not only North and south America, but also the islands of New Guinea. Maps not found in the previous Gastaldi edition of 1548 are: Scandinavia (after Jacob Ziegler, 1532); Brasil (after Ramusio); the Arctic regions; South Africa; and a navigational chart of the World (Shirley 111). Adams P-2235; Alden and Landis 561/42; Burden 29, 30, and 31; Norderskiöld Collection 2:216; Phillips "Atlases" 371; Sabin 66503; Shirley 110 and 111. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. N° de ref. del artículo 72lib430

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