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<dl><dd>Colophon on last leaf: Excudebat Gaspar Trechsel Viennae [i.e. Vienne], M.D.XLI. Similar colophon at ¹n4r</dd>
<dd>Hughes de la Porte's device on t.p. In-text diagrams. Full-page representation of armillary sphere showing position of the winds on ¹l4v by Albrecht Dürer (Hollstein German, VII 213). The 50 maps are printed on 49 double leaves, tipped onto stubs at the centerfold (no. 47 is printed on the back of no. 46). They are repeated from Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel's Lyon ed. of 1535 and the Grüninger Strasbourg ed. of 1525; see R. Mortimer, French 16th cent., 50. Most of the maps have letter-press description on the back. Historiated and decorated initials</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁴ 1-49² ²a-h⁶</dd>
<dd>Binding: old vellum, rebacked. Inscription on foot of textblock: TOLOM. Geog. narr. Two-line bibliographical inscription at head of front pastedown. Below it is signature (lined out): John E. Burton 1907 ; the library of John Edgar Burton (b. 1847) was sold at Anderson Galleries, New York, 1915-16. At foot of ²h4r is property stamp of Yale University</dd>
<dd>In Getty copy the stubs on which the maps are tipped consist of paper manuscript waste</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Geography, Ancient; Early maps; Geography</div>
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<dl><dd>Ptolemy, active 2nd century</dd>
<dd>Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530</dd>
<dd>Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553</dd>
<dd>Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528</dd></dl></div>
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