Geographia universalis vetus et nova complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII : Quorum primus nova translatione Pirckheimeri et accessione commentarioli illustrior quam hactenus fuerit, redditus est ... Addita sunt Scholia quibus exoleta ... nomina ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur. Succedunt Tabulæ Ptolemaicę, opera S. Munsteri novo paratæ modo. His adjectæ sunt plurime novæ tabulæ; ... annexum est compendium geographicę descriptionis ... Pręfixus est quo[que] universo operi index memorabiliu[m] populorum, civitatum, fluviorum, montium, terrarum, lacuum &c.

Münster, Sebastian, Pirckheimer, Willibald, Ptolemaeus, Claudius, Stumpf, Johann Rudolf · 1540 · apud Henricum Petrum · 65 pictures

A 1540 Basel geography atlas by Sebastian Münster, after Ptolemy with Pirckheimer's translation, printed by Henricus Petri for scholars and map-readers of the sixteenth century. Its pages show tables of latitude and longitude beside hand-coloured maps of Britain, Europe, and the Holy Land, with ornate woodcut borders and labelled coastlines, rivers, and mountain ranges that a designer could use for historical map styling.

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