Fourth Latin edition of Sebastian Münster, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, folio (310 x 202mm.), woodcut portrait of Ptolemy on verso of title, 52 (of 54) double-page woodcut mapsheets, all on guards, woodcut device on verso of last leaf, contemporary blindstamped half pigskin over wooden boards, catches, one clasp only, early annotations in red ink and to map 37, lacking maps 33 and 34, minor worming, a few minor tears or stains, left leaf of map 5 becoming detached

Johann Sigismundus Ulrici, ("Ex Bibliotheca Waltheriana. Libris Suis adtribuit Johannes Sigismundus Ulrici, Architectus"), manuscript annotation to title; Samuel Walther, manuscript annotations, including to pastedowns, blanks and recto of front free endpaper; Jules Remy, ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper

Nördenkiold Collection 2:215; Philips, Atlases 370; Shirley 92; Burden 12, 13

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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This is the fourth and last of Sebastian Munster's editions of the Geographia based on Pirckheimer's translation with an additional treatise, and enlarged indices by Konrad Wolffhart, generally known as Lycosthenes. The modern world map is from a new block and bears the monogram of the engraver David Kandel in the lower left-hand corner (Shirley, Mapping of the World 92).