Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio. Descrittione di tutta la Terra. Libro Primo. (to accompany) Geographia di Clavdio Tolomeo alessandrino, tradotta di Greco nell'idioma volgare Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli . In Venetia, MDXCIX (1599) Appresso gli heredi di M. Sessa.

• Main Authors: Ptolemy, Claudius, Ruscelli,Girolamo, Rosaccio, Giuseppe
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Appresso gli heredi di Melchior Sessa 1599
• Subjects: Classical; Hora; North Pole; Northwest Passage; Northwest passage
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Engraved double hemispherical world map. The engraving is a model of clarity and neatness, with typical cursive flourishes to the lettering of the sea names. The North Pole is illustrated as a land mass surrounding a sea from which four rivers radiate, and there is a well depicted northwest passage. Shows a huge southern continent and the bulge in the south west coast of South America. Relief shown pictorially. Ruscelli's Italian translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia. The fourth edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy, revised, enlarged, and edited by Giuseppe Rosaccio, 4 parts in one volume, with 69 engraved double-page uncolored maps, five entirely new maps, including one of the Americas. With various pagination, showing landmarks, rivers, ports, fortifications, major cities and towns, some with decorative cartouches, illustrations of sea monsters and ships. Relief shown pictorially. Bound in full leather covers. Claudius Ptolemy (90-168 CE) was a Roman geographer and mathematician living in Egypt, who compiled his knowledge and theories about the world's geography into one seminal work. Although his maps did not survive, his mathematical projections and location coordinates did. Girolamo Ruscelli (c. 1504-1566) was a Venetian editor, whose maps are primarily based on those by Jacopo Gastaldi (1548) but with many of his own additions and reproduced on a larger scale. Ruscelli introduces several important innovations in this volume through his 37 "modern" maps, which cover Europe, Africa, Asia and the New World. Ruscelli includes a double hemisphere world map, which was the first of its kind to be used in an atlas, and "Carta Marina Nuova Tavola", a rare sea chart of the world.