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PTOLOMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. c.100-c.170. Geographiae libri octo, edited by Gerard Mercator.  Cologne Godfried von Kempen, 1584. image 1
PTOLOMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. c.100-c.170. Geographiae libri octo, edited by Gerard Mercator.  Cologne Godfried von Kempen, 1584. image 2
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PTOLOMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. c.100-c.170.
Geographiae libri octo, edited by Gerard Mercator. Cologne: Godfried von Kempen, 1584.

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PTOLOMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. c.100-c.170.

Geographiae libri octo, edited by Gerard Mercator. Cologne: Godfried von Kempen, 1584.
Folio (395 x 267 mm) engraved title and 26 engraved double-page maps colored in a contemporary hand (of 28 maps, lacking a map of North Africa, a smaller map of Egypt and 2 blank leaves M4 and c4) woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, the "Tabulae" bound in before the plates. 18th century half vellum one map (N) torn along gutter margin, some light browning and staining, a few short tears and minor worming.
BOUND WITH: Italiae, Sclavoniae, et Graeciae tabule geographice. Amsterdam: Joducus Hondius, 1595.
Folio. Engraved hand-colored title and 17 (of 22) engraved maps all hand-colored by a contemporary hand. Included in this copy is a map of Europe by Rumold Mercator, in first state without text on verso, "Europa ad magnae Europae Gerardi Mercatoris P. imitationem Rumoldi Mercatoris." Duisberg, [c.1595].

Second edition of Mercator's version of Ptolemy, which first appeared in 1576. An important 16th century work representing Mercator's fascination with Ptolemy. The Ptolemaic maps published here in the Geographia and the modern part on Italy are among only a few works by Mercator published during his lifetime. Van der Krogt 1:502; VD 16 P 5219.

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