(PTOLEMY). GIOVANNI ANTONIO MAGINI. Geografia Cioè, Descrittione Univesale della Terra.

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Appresso Gio. Battista & Giorgio Galignani

Venice

1598-97

FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Magini’s edition of Ptolemy. Translated by Leonard Cernoti. Two parts in one volume. Illustrated with two engraved title vignettes; 63 copperplate half-page maps, and several woodcuts in text; Image of the winds of the world; two of armillary sphere: And full-page, double-hemisphere map: “Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.”

The first edition of Leonardo Cernoti’s Italian translation of Ptolemy’s Geografia based on the 1596 Latin edition of Magini. The beautiful engraved maps are attributed to Girolamo Porro. Map breakdown: 27 Ptolemy maps and 37 ‘modern’ maps, including 4 world maps (one Ptolemy /Shirley 193, three modern /Shirley 194, 195, 196); 1 map of America (Burden 93); 32 European maps; 6 maps of Africa and 21 maps of Asia.