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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Liber Geographiae cum Tabulis et Universali Figura. [61] leaves, lacks the initial blank. 28 wood-engraved maps in red and

PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Liber Geographiae cum Tabulis et Universali Figura. [61] leaves, lacks the initial blank. 28 wood-engraved maps in red and black on 30 leaves, including folding world map. Folio, 405x285, contemporary vellum, lightly rubbed; first 20 leaves with lower right corner reconstructed (not affecting any text), preliminaries and signature A loose in binding, fore- and top-edges slightly shaved and with some scattered minor loss of some printed marginalia, some staining on a few maps including double-page world map, Africa 4/Asia 1 (recto/verso of same leaf) with 60x70 mm portion along top edge and into gradients supplied in facsimile. Phillips 358. Venice: Jacobum Pentium, 20 March 1511

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