1640 CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY Geographia Universalis ILLUSTRATED w/20 MAPS antique FOLIO

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Ptolemaeus, Claudius.


Geographia Universalis, vtus et nova.

[Edited by Sebastian Münster].


Basel: Heinrich Petri;  March 1540 

20 (of 48) double-page maps of the ancient world.

The maps combine ancient ideas from Ptolemy, medieval travel stories from Marco Polo, and new sea routes found by Portuguese explorers.

[42], blank, 155 pages + index (only).


Folio, old reverse calf; lacking maps and partially disbound, clean.
With wormt holes visible on the photos

Includes maps of:

- Gallia
- Germaniu Magna
-Dacia (modern day Romania, in Middle Ages - Denmark)
- Asia Minor
- Asia - Sarmatia (Ancient Persia)
- Asia (Albania, Armenia, Assyria, Messopotamia)
-Arabia
-Asia (Northeast of Caspian Sea, inc. Hyrcania, Margiana, Bactriana, Sogdiana, Scythia)
-Asia (Modern day Iran, Afghanistana, Pakistan, Nothwest India)
- Asia (Northern India)
etc.

 Small folio:  8 1/2 by 12 1/4"

Text in Latin
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Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova is a 16th-century edition of Claudius Ptolemy's ancient geographic treatise, edited by the scholar Sebastian Münster and first published in Basel in 1440 (famously printed in 1540 and later 1545).
It combines classical 2nd-century coordinates with modern regional maps

Written by Claudius Ptolemy in Alexandria around AD 150 as a masterwork on cartography.

Translated into Latin by Willibald Pirckheimer and edited with extensive updates by Sebastian Münster. 

Served as a foundational bridge linking ancient geographical concepts to Renaissance mapmaking expansion. 
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