Ptolemy’s Geographia – Ziletti’s La geografia – Volume with 65 Engraved Maps

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La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo... tradotta di Greco in Italiano da G. Ruscelli: & hora in questa nuova editione da Gio. Malombra ricorretta [or Geographia]

This volume with 65 engraved maps is from Giordano Ziletti’s La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo… tradotta di Greco in Italiano da G. Ruscelli: & hora in questa nuova editione da Gio. Malombra ricorretta. The work was published in 1574 in Venice by Giordano Ziletti. This is the third edition of the Ruscelli translation of Ptolemy’s Geografia.

The volume is bound in later full calf gilt with gilt boss on covers. This is three parts in one quarto volume. Each part has its own title page. There are 65 engraved maps of which 27 are of the ancient world and 38 of the modern world.

This edition of the work included 6 maps of America and a new Ptolemaic world map. “In this printing of Ptolemy’s Geografia by Ziletto there is a new Ptolemaic world map which has different title and is based on a revised conical projection. Otherwise the map is similar to the first issued in 1561. The 1574 version was used in subsequent editions in 1598 and 1599.” (Shirley 133) This edition also included some of the first examples of Giacomo Gastaldi’s maps.
This work is considered a later published editon of Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus)’s Geographia. The work was considered one of the most influential cartographic accounts of the ancient world and served as inspiration for all Renaissance mapmakers. He compiled what was known of the world’s geography in the Roman Empire during his time (circa 90-168 AD). Ptolemy was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet. The earliest known manuscripts of Geographia date to 1300 and was first printed in 1477.

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