[ATLAS]. PTOLÉMÉE (Claude). Geographiae Libri octo græco-lat - Lot 61

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[ATLAS]. PTOLÉMÉE (Claude). Geographiae Libri octo græco-lat - Lot 61
[ATLAS]. PTOLÉMÉE (Claude). Geographiae Libri octo græco-latini. Amsterodammi,Sumptibus Cornelii Nicolai & Iudoci Hondii, 1605. In-folio, red morocco, double frame of gilt fillets on boards, smooth spine decorated in the same style with full title, gilt edges (period binding). [I (Title)] + [IV (Avis aux lecteurs, Préface...)] ff; 28 signed maps: A-O2, [*1], P-V2, V.22, X-Z2, Zz2, Aa-Bb2; 215 pp. signed: A-S6. "Latinè primùm recogniti & emendati, cum tabulis geographicis ad mentem auctoris restitutis per Gerardum Mercatorem : Jam verò ad Græca & Latina exemplaria à Petro Montano iterum recogniti, et pluribus locis castigati [...]" Copy of print run "a", as described by Koeman, without the 30 pages of text "In dicem Hunc in tres classes distinxi [...]" (signed a-b6 & c3); & the 32 pages (with a diagram on the last page) "Index eorum quae inocto libris Ptolemaei Continentur [...]" (signed T1 to 6, V1, V2, V3, S4, S5, S6 & X1 to 4), and bound without the decicace leaf "Ad clarissimum, doctissimunque D. Gerardum Mercatorem[...]" with portrait on verso (whose advertisement on the previous leaf has been carefully erased). Latin and Greek text. AN ENGRAVED TITLE WITH ARCHITECTURAL DECOR & 28 MAPS, 27 on double-page; engraved figures in the text. From the library of Dr. P. A. Créhange, with bookplate; and handwritten bookplate on title and notice to readers "Hondius Lectori". Handwritten annotations and geometrical figure in margin of pages 11, 22 & 185. Some damage to binding; title and first page soiled; wetness; restored tear to map "Europae tabula. I. " & on f. Q1. "The Ptolemy edition of 1605 is the first work printed in Greek in Amsterdam, and is a typographic masterpiece" (Koeman,Atlantes Neerlandici, II, 1969, p. 285 ); "There are a number of variations in different copies of this edition including the place of publication, some giving Frankfort, others Amsterdam, and still others both." (Phillips, Atlases, 421). PRECIOUS CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO COPY.
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