• [Cosmographia].

Language:

• Latin

Creator:

• Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Call number:

• EXKA Ptolemy 1482
• 58.6

Extent:

• [69] leaves, [32] double leaves : maps ; 42 cm. (fol.)

Format:

• Book

Type:

• World atlases
• Early works to 1800

Description:

• Title proper from colophon.
• Imprint from Goff.
• Latin translation by Jacopo d'Angelo; edited by Nicolaus Germanus.
• The first edition of Ptolemy printed in Germany, and the first edition in which woodcut maps appear.
• The maps, double, except for the last, are on separate sheets,most of them with a descriptive text printed on the back within woodcut borders; these texts are known in several variants.
• "Maps ... redrawn, corrected and improved ... by Nicolaus Donis [i.e. Nicolaus Germanus] ... [who] also added the five modern maps, one of which contains the first printed representation of Greenland, laid down as a peninsula of northern Europe under the name of Engronelant."--Sabin, 66472.

Publisher:

• Ulm : Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482.

Subject:

• Atlases—Early works to 1800
• Geography, Ancient
• Early maps
• World atlases—1482

Title sort:

• [Cosmographia].

Author:

• Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Created:

• 1482-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1482

Collections:

• Incunabula at Princeton
• Patron Requests
• Treasures of Rare Book Division

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/wm117x10p

Range label:

• Logical

Contributor:

• Protzek, Johann

Printer:

• Hol, Lienhart

Former owner:

• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

References:

• Hain-Copinger, 13539*
• Copinger, 4976
• Proctor, 2556
• Goff, P-1084
• Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 5031
• BM 15th cent., II, 538 (IC 9306)
• ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ip01084000
• Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 919
• Winsor. Bibliography of Ptolemy's Geography, p. 5-6
• Stevens, H.N. Ptolemy's geography, p. 40 (first issue?)

Bookseller:

• Rosenbach Company

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939282273506421

Provenance:

• ExKa copy has bookplate of Grenville Kane.
• WHS copy is Sir Thomas Phillipps's copy with signature of Johann Protzek; acquired 10/16/24 from Rosenbach.

Binding note:

• ExKa copy in three-quarter sheep with speckled paper sides.

Uniform title:

• Geographia. Latin

Location:

• HSVR EXKA Ptolemy 1482
• HSVR 58.6
• WHS EXKA Ptolemy 1482
• WHS 58.6

Scopenote:

• WHS 58.6

Editor:

• Nicolaus Germanus, active 15th century

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