Ptolomaeus (Claudius) In hoc operae haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolomaei..., without plates [text only], collation: A-C⁸, D-E⁶, F-O⁸, 2A-2B⁸, 2C⁴, lacking N1&2, title with large initial I and woodcut ?printer's device, woodcut initials, title with small hole (?abrasion; to blank section, but affecting woodcut initial to verso), A5 (silked repair) and O3 with closed tear affecting text but no loss, A8 paper repairs to blank inner margin, 1507, bound with Beneventanus (Marcus) Noua orbis descriptio..., collation: a^,6b⁸, 1508, together 2 parts in 1, woodcut diagrams, some light marginal foxing, lower hinge broken, rear endpapers loose, later vellum, light wear to corners, folio (422 x 285mm.), Rome, for Bernardino Vitali and Evangelista Tosini.

⁂ Fourth Rome edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. In 1508 an updated version of this work was issued by the press, with a new title, and containing both Johannes Ruysch's famous 'Universalior cogniti orbis tabula...' map (not present in this copy), and a description of the New World by monk Marcus Beneventanus, making it the first edition of a Ptolemy to include an account of the New World. The copy here offered combines these two editions, presenting the 1507 text, with Beneventanus' account.

Literature: I. Edit 16 CNCE 59093. II. c.f. Edit 16 CNCE 73332