Ptolemy's geography: : a brief account of all the printed editions down to 1730, with notes on some important variations observed in that of Ulm 1482, including the recent discovery of the earliest printed map of the world yet known on modern geographical conceptions in which some attempt was made to depart from ancient tradition., By Henry N. Stevens

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The instance Ptolemy's geography: : a brief account of all the printed editions down to 1730, with notes on some important variations observed in that of Ulm 1482, including the recent discovery of the earliest printed map of the world yet known on modern geographical conceptions in which some attempt was made to depart from ancient tradition., By Henry N. Stevens represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

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Ptolemy's geography: : a brief account of all the printed editions down to 1730, with notes on some important variations observed in that of Ulm 1482, including the recent discovery of the earliest printed map of the world yet known on modern geographical conceptions in which some attempt was made to depart from ancient tradition., By Henry N. Stevens

Title remainder

a brief account of all the printed editions down to 1730, with notes on some important variations observed in that of Ulm 1482, including the recent discovery of the earliest printed map of the world yet known on modern geographical conceptions in which some attempt was made to depart from ancient tradition.

Statement of responsibility

By Henry N. Stevens

Instantiates

• Ptolemy's geography: : a brief account of all the printed editions down to 1730, with notes on some important variations observed in that of Ulm 1482, including the recent discovery of the earliest printed map of the world yet known on modern geographical conceptions in which some attempt was made to depart from ancient tradition.

Publication

• London, H. Stevens, Son and Stiles, 1908

Note

• Title in red and black; initials; head and tail pieces
• "The first edition of this ... essay was privately printed in an édition de luxe of only 20 copies, as a descriptive handbook to the Henry Stevens collection of the various editions of Ptolemy's geography, now preserved in the library of Mr. Edward E. Ayer of Chicago."--Pref

Dimensions

23 cm.

Edition

2d ed.

Extent

viii, 62 p.

Lccn

10023325

Other physical details

illus. (incl. facsim.)

Record ID

3114993

System control number

• (OCoLC)02294240
• ucoclc2294240