[In Venetia], [per Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano], [1548], carta geografica raffigurante l’Italia, la Corsica ed altre altre isole vicine all’Italia: incisa in rame, mm. 132×172 (l’impronta della lastra), mm. 167×197 (il foglio, che reca, sull’altra facciata, la descrizione a stampa della carta). Proveniente dall’edizione della Geografia di Tolomeo stampata a Venezia dal Pedrezano nel 1548: in-8, prima edizione con le carte geografiche incise da Giacomo Gastaldi, prima edizione della traduzione italiana di Pietro Andrea Mattioli. “This important edition, printed in a portable format and thus the first to address the needs of travellers, contains the first full series of Ptolemaic maps to appear since the incunable editions of the preceding century. The maps of the present edition were engraved by the prolific Giacomo Gastaldi (c. 1500 – c.1565), cosmographer to the Republic of Venice; while Gastaldi based his engravings of the 26 Ptolemaic maps on the woodcuts by Münster which illustrated the 1540 Basel edition, the 34 modern maps (which are interposed between the ancient maps), were of his own design, and contain significant innovations. […] The translation by the botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli appears in this edition only; it was superseded by Girolamo Ruscelli’s translation, which was first published in 1561 and frequently reprinted. The only earlier Italian version was Berlinghieri’s verse paraphrase (Florence: ca. 1482)”. Ottime condizioni.

Ptolemaeus Claudius [Claudio Tolomeo, Ptolemy]. 

Carte geografiche, Italia, Tolomeo, Ptolemy