This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur. Indices duo hactenus a multis desiderati, quoru adminiculo, ue terum simul ac recentiorum locorum (utpote regionum, ma-rium, insularum, promontorium, montium, fluminorum, ur-bium, &c.) situs, facillimaratione in tabulis depictis deprehendutur, Conradi Lycosthenis Rubeaquesis opera ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur. Indices duo hactenus a multis desiderati, quoru adminiculo, ue terum simul ac recentiorum locorum (utpote regionum, ma-rium, insularum, promontorium, montium, fluminorum, ur-bium, &c.) situs, facillimaratione in tabulis depictis deprehendutur, Conradi Lycosthenis Rubeaquesis opera adiecti. Quibus praefixa est epistola in qua de utilitate tabularum Geo-graphicarum ac duplicis indicis usu late disseritur. Tabulae nouae quae hactenus in nulla Ptolemaica editione uisae sunt, per Sebastianvm Mvnstervm. Geographic descriptionis compendium, in quo uarij gentium ac regionum ritus, mores atq3 consuetudines per eundem ex-plicantur. Cum Regime Maiestatis Gratia & Priuilegio ad sexennium. Colophon: Basileae ex offi etna Henricht Petri, Mense Martio, Anno m. D. Lii. Sm. folio. s. Collation: 314 leaves, three of which are blank--comprising the title-page, with an inscription and woodcut figure of Ptolemy on the verso, the "Epistola nvnevpatoria" of Minister in 2 leaves, and the royal license on one leaf, recto blank (sig. in four); "De vtilitate tabularum Geographicarum" in 3 leaves, followed by one blank leaf (sig. a in four); the indexes in 81 leaves, followed by one blank leaf (sig. b-o in sixes, and p in four); book 1 of the text, with Miinster's annotations, in 17 leaves, followed by one blank leaf (sig. A A-CC in sixes); books n to vm of the text, pp. 1--155, verso blank (sig. DD--QQ in sixes); 54 maps on 108 leaves; and the "Appendix Geographfca" of Minister, pp. 157-195 (sig. A-B in sixes, and C in eight). The fourth edition of Miinster's Ptolemy, with an additional treatise and enlarged indexes. The "Epistola nvnevpatoria" is dated "Basileae anno M.d.Ln. Mense Martio." T...
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