Atlas - World; Claudii Ptolemaei - Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum Veteribus cogniti. - 1681-1700
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Claudii Ptolemaei's Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum Veteribus cogniti, Halma Utrecht 1695, a copper engraved atlas with 28 coloured maps and gold heightening.
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Claudii Ptolemaei, Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum Veteribus cogniti.
Franeker and Utrecht, L. Strik and F. Halma, 1695.
Dimensions: Folio (42.5 x 30.5).
Coloured engraved titlepage, index leaf, 28 coloured double-page maps. The titlepage and the worldmap are heightened with gold!
Contemporary calf binding.
Between 1695 and 1705, three different editions of François Halma’s issue of Mercator’s Ptolemy atlas were published in three different Dutch cities: Amsterdam, Leiden and Utrecht. This issue is the first out of the three, which was published in 1695 in Utrecht. It merely includes plates that have been reworked with new cartouches as well as a new title page that is engraved by Jan van Vianen. It is most likely that Halma obtained these plates at an auction in 1694 of the Janssonius heirs.
Claudius Ptolemy (fl. AD 127-145) was an ancient geographer, astronomer, as well as a mathematician. He is known today through translations and transcriptions of his work. Perhaps his best-known work is his Geographia, in eight books. However, Ptolemy’s ideas had been absent from western European intellectual history. In 1295, a Greek monk found a copy of Geographia in Constantinople; which eventually led to the circulation in eastern Europe. In 1393, a Byzantine diplomat brought a copy of the Geographia to Italy, where it was translated into Latin in 1406 and called the Cosmographia. The manuscript maps were first recorded in 1415. These manuscripts, of which there are over eighty extant today, are the descendants of Ptolemy’s work and a now-lost atlas consisting of a world map and 26 regional maps.When Ptolemy’s work was re-introduced to Western scholarship, it proved radically influential for the understanding and appearance of maps.
Overall very nice copy of this atlas, a few pages with old ink stains in the white margin.
References: Shirley 139; Koeman Me6; Van der Krogt I,1:521A; Phillips I, 518.
Attention for US buyers: Due to recent postal restrictions shipping to the US can only be done by DHL,
therefor higher shipping costs apply!
Claudii Ptolemaei, Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum Veteribus cogniti.
Franeker and Utrecht, L. Strik and F. Halma, 1695.
Dimensions: Folio (42.5 x 30.5).
Coloured engraved titlepage, index leaf, 28 coloured double-page maps. The titlepage and the worldmap are heightened with gold!
Contemporary calf binding.
Between 1695 and 1705, three different editions of François Halma’s issue of Mercator’s Ptolemy atlas were published in three different Dutch cities: Amsterdam, Leiden and Utrecht. This issue is the first out of the three, which was published in 1695 in Utrecht. It merely includes plates that have been reworked with new cartouches as well as a new title page that is engraved by Jan van Vianen. It is most likely that Halma obtained these plates at an auction in 1694 of the Janssonius heirs.
Claudius Ptolemy (fl. AD 127-145) was an ancient geographer, astronomer, as well as a mathematician. He is known today through translations and transcriptions of his work. Perhaps his best-known work is his Geographia, in eight books. However, Ptolemy’s ideas had been absent from western European intellectual history. In 1295, a Greek monk found a copy of Geographia in Constantinople; which eventually led to the circulation in eastern Europe. In 1393, a Byzantine diplomat brought a copy of the Geographia to Italy, where it was translated into Latin in 1406 and called the Cosmographia. The manuscript maps were first recorded in 1415. These manuscripts, of which there are over eighty extant today, are the descendants of Ptolemy’s work and a now-lost atlas consisting of a world map and 26 regional maps.When Ptolemy’s work was re-introduced to Western scholarship, it proved radically influential for the understanding and appearance of maps.
Overall very nice copy of this atlas, a few pages with old ink stains in the white margin.
References: Shirley 139; Koeman Me6; Van der Krogt I,1:521A; Phillips I, 518.
Attention for US buyers: Due to recent postal restrictions shipping to the US can only be done by DHL,
therefor higher shipping costs apply!
Details
Era
1400-1900
Number of items
1
Country
Atlas
Geographical specification
World
Map maker/ publisher
Claudii Ptolemaei
Map/ Book title
Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum Veteribus cogniti.
Period
1681-1700
Condition
Good
Technique
Copper engraving
Additional Information
Ptlolemaeus atlas, beautiful colored and partly HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD, in the Halma edition from
Height
42.5 cm
Width
30.5 cm
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