La geografia. Nuovamente tradotta di greco in italiano de Ieronomo Ruscelli, con espositioni del medesimo [...] universali sopra tutto il libro, & sopra tutta la geografia, ò modo di far la descrittione di tutto il mondo. Et con nuove et bellissime figure in istampe di rame [...]. Aggiuntovi un pieno discorso di M. Gioseppe Moleto [...].

3 pts in 1 vol., 4to: [8 (of 12)]-358-[2] pp., 37 double-page maps, [28] ff., 27 double-page maps, [48], 47 pp. (old & modern maps inverted, index bound before 3rd part; probably (skilfully) cleaned copy, occ. sl. staining and foxing, sl. marg. damp stain to England map, marg. wormtrack in text repaired in last part of the vol.).

19th-c. half leather, marbled paper covers, gilt orn. flat spine, a.e.g. (sl. rubbed).

Second Italian edition by the mathematician and cartographer Girolamo Ruscelli (1518-1566). Illustrated with 64 copper-engr. double-page maps, identical to those of the Italian edition of 1561 and Latin ed. of 1562, and with woodcut diagrams or ill. (some full-page). The 2nd part contains the commentary of Ruscelli on Ptolemy's Geography; the 3rd is composed of the work by the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Moletti (1531-1588) on geography. Printer's mark on title and on reverse of last map.
Ref. EDIT16 41068. - Sabin 66504. - Phillips, Atlases, 373 (calls for 27 and 38 maps). - STC Italy p.543. - Not in Adams (other ed.), Mortimer.
Prov. Fransiscans Collegium of Montiparati (?) (17th-c. ms. entry). - Chaillon (id.). - D.-J. Bridoux (ms. entry 1865). - Pierre-Philippe-Constant Lammens (1762-1836), Ghent bibliophile (bookpl.).