Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/45
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PTroLEMY—continued. statement, printed on the back of map 41 of this edition, reflecting on the climate and soil of Palestine. The passage in question, however, was not written by him, but had been copied from the same map in the editions of 1522 and 1525. It was omitted in his second edition printed at Vienne in the Dauphiné, in 1541. The following maps relate to America :— No. 28. Tabula Terra Nova. (Slhghtly differing from the 1513 edition.) On the reverse is an account of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus. No. 34. Norbegia et Gottia. Represents Greenland as a Peninsula of Europe. No. 49. Tabula Nova Orbis. Map of the World, resembling the ‘‘ Orbis Typus’’? in the 1513 edition, which by some was attributed to Columbus (aind therefore called the ‘‘ Admiral’s Map’’), and by others to Vespuccius. Green- land is again, part cf Europe, and America is marked as Portuguese Land. No. 50. Tabula Totius Orbis. ‘‘ The new map of the World, the produc- tion of L. Fries, is a revision, with alterations, of that of the preceding editions, and is remarkable as the first map with the name America that appeared in Ptolemy's work. This name is inscribed on a portion of the South American Continent.”’ 1535 A.D. [3930] SABELLICUS (M. C.). Rapsodiae Historiarum Enneadum. Titles printed in red and black, with decorative woodcut borders. 2 vols, folio. Ovzginal vellum. Lyons, Jacob Giunti, 1535. £15 15s Sabin 74663. Not in Harrisse; who only gives the Paris Edition of the same year (No. 203). Pages 526-527 of the second part contain an account of Columbus and his discovery of America, which, although short, is of considerable interest, as it was originally written before the year 1503.
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