THIS IS AN ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVING OF THE 1599 Ed., VERY RARE AND PARTICULAR, HARD TO FIND FOR SALE FOR HIS RARITY, PRECIOUSNESS, PURITY, ORIGINALITY, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR HIS RAPPRESENTATION IN STYLE VERY SPECIAL, WITH AN IMPRESSION VERY VERY MEANINGFUL, AS YOU CAN WELL OBSERVE IN THE PHOTOS.....;
"...AFRICA NOVA TABULA, SOUTH AFRICA, CAPE of GOOD HOPE, MADAGASCAR, BOTSWANA ..."
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL AND ULTRA-RARE GEOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE 1599 Edition OF THE FAMOUS WORK/OPERA of "GIROLAMO RUSCELLI / GIOSEFFO ROSACCIO / GIOVANNI ANTONIO MAGINI": "LA GEOGRAFIA di CLAUDIO TOLOMEO ALESSANDRINO", TRADOTTA DI GRECO NELL'IDIOMA VOLGARE ITALIANO DA "GIROLAMO RUSCELLI" ET HORA NUOVAMENTE AMPLIATA DA "GIOSEFFO ROSACCIO" CON VARIE ANNOTATIONI ET ESPOSITIONI ET TAVOLE DI RAME CHE NELLI STAMPATI ALTRE VOLTE NON ERANO, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc......Per CLAUDIO TOLOMEO: In Venezia, Appresso gli Heredi di MELCHIOR SESSA,1599 ;
BEAUTIFUL COPPER ENGRAVING, RICH IN MEANING AND WITH COUNTLESS PLACE (TOPONOMASTIC...) NAME AND GEOGRAPHICAL DETAILS THAT ENRICH EVEN MORE ITS VALUE.
Claudius Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaus - c. AD 100 - c. AD 170), was a Greco-Egyptian writer, know as a Matematician, Astronomer, Geographer, Astrologer, and Poet of a single Epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in the city of ALEXANDRIA in the Roman Province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman Citizenship. Beyond that, few reliable details of his life are know. His birthplace has been given as Ptolemais Hermiou in the thebaid in an uncorroborated statement by the 14 Th. Century Astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes. This is a very late attestation, however, and there is no other reason to suppose that he ever lived anywhere else than Alexandria, where he died around the AD 168.
Ptolemy wrote several scientific treatises, three of which were of importance to later Byzantine, Islamic and European Science. The first is the Astronomical Treatise now Known as the Almagest, althugh it was originally entitled the "Mathematical Treatise" and than know as the "Great Treatise". The second is the Geography, whichis a thorough discussion of the Geographic Knowledge of the Greco-Roman World. The Third is the Astrological Treatise in which he attempted to adapt Horoscopic Astrology to the Aristotelian Natural Philosophy of his day. This is sometimes known as the Apotelesmatika but more commonly as the Tetrabiblos from Greec meaning "Four Books" or by the Latin Quadripartium. . Claudius Ptolemy, died at Alexandria (Egypt...) in the AD 168 about;
TOTAL SIZES OF THIS GEOGRAPHICAL MAP: Cm: 33,5 X 24,0 -- Inch: 13.4" X 9.6"
THIS GEOGRAPHICAL MAP IS AN ORIGINAL & RARE COPPER ENGRAVING OF THE XVI° CENTURY ; VERY, VERY SMALL TRACES OF NORMAL AGING, AS FROM PHOTO; BEAUTIFUL, SPECTACULAR, AMAZING DETAILS, LARGE MARGINS & BEAUTIFUL M. COLORATION; SLIGHT TRACES OCCASIONAL OF MARGINAL SOILING THAT DOES NOT DAMAGE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, AND SMALL TRACES OF RESTORTION (CENTRAL-FOLD...) IN THIS MAP, AS PER PHOTOS; THE STATUS OF THIS MAP, IN THE END, IS SO VERY, VERY GOOD AS SHOWN IN PARTICULAR AND ABOVE ALL, THE SAME PHOTOS;