Geography (Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo)

Translation of Ptolemy's Eight Books of Geography —

This volume is curious as it contains several very early maps of the New World, which on one of them deleted: "which" it is called America. —

It contains, 1 a Translation of the Eight Books by Bilibald Pirkheimer, comprising 82 folios, regularly numbered, followed by the Annotations of Joannes Regiomontanus Johann Müller of Königsberg — The translation comprises 82 folios regularly numbered, deleted: "the annotation fills" with signatures 13 folios not numbered, but a lettered at bottom, and are followed by an Index and Maps. At the end of the Annotations is the deleted: "Date" (Colophon) —

Strasbourg, original: "Argentoragi" Johannes Grieningerus Grüninger, by the common expense of Johannis Koberger Hans Koberger, 1525 —