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Exhibition History Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)

Subject Terms Geography -- Early works to 1800.

1. Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata / schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correcta a Marco Beneuentano ... & Ioanne Cotta ... ; figura de proiectione spherae in plano quae in libro octauo desiderabatur ab ipsis no[n]dum instaurata sed fere ad inuenta eius. n. uestigia in nullo etiam Graeco codice extabant ; maxima quantitas dier[um] ciuitatu[m], & distantiae locor[um] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti cuiusq[ue] ciuitatis quae in alijs codicibus no[n] erant ; planisphaerium Cl. Ptolemaei recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Benuentano ... ; noua orbis descriptio ac nuoa oceani nauigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] peruenitur pelagus Marco Benuentano ... aedita ; noua & uniuersalior orbis tabula Ioa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata ; sex tabulae nouiter confectae uidelicet Liuoniae, Hyspaniae, Galliae, Germaniae, Italiae, & Iudeae.

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Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: anno Virginei partus 1508
Physical Description:: [284] p., [68] leaves of plates : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Atlas siue Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / Gerardo Mercatore Rupelmundano ...

Atlas siue Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / Gerardo Mercatore Rupelmundano ...

Creator:: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:: anno 1595
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([14], 32, [16] pages, [254] leaves) : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts