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Ptolomaeus Mercator. Geographiae Libri Octo

Ptolomaeus (Claudius) Gerard Mercator. Geographiae Libri Octo,

2nd edition with reset text on map versos, ornately engraved title with inset eastern hemisphere map, woodcut initials and illustrations in text, and 28 maps, all but 1 double-page, including the world (Universalis Tabula), 10 of Europe, 5 of Africa, including the single-page Upper Egypt, and 12 of Asia, engraved maps, faint dampstaining affecting margins and upper corners of most maps and some text leaves, otherwise in good condition, title in upper margin of single-page Upper Egypt map shaved, later full vellum, spine with raised bands, folio, [Koeman, Me, 2; Shirley, TPTOL-11c; Phillips Atlases, 390], Cologne, Godfried von Kempen, 1584.