Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco

36. meLI dA cRemA, Antonio. Libro de Vita
contemplativa: lectione, meditatione, oratione,
contemplatione. Scala del paradiso. Brescia
(Brixia), Ant. Moranti, 1527, € 8.500
4to, ll. (22), 434, (12), very fine contemporary binding in
calf tooled in blind. Illustrated with 2 borders and more
than 110 woodcuts of different size in-text. First edition
of the great text on meditative life by the Confessor of
Lucrezia Borgia, dedicatee of the book. Very rare impression
of Brescia, in a perfect condition. Sander, 4489. Brunet
III, 1587. Olschki, Choix, 4843. [4362]
37. meRcATOR, Gerard. claudij ptolemaei
Alexandrini Geographiae libri octo Greco-
Latini Latine primum recogniti & emendati,
cum tabulis geographicis ad mentem auctoris restitutis
per Gerardum Mercatorem… Amsterdam,
1605, € 14.000
large folio, 6 ll. (included engraved title page and portrait),
27 maps on double page (one single page), 215 pp., one
planispher within a large decorated allegorical border , 20
maps of Europe, 5 of Africa, 12 of Asia. First edition with
text in latin and greek of Ptolemy; the 28 beautiful maps
are by Gerard Mercator (1512-1594). (some dust and light
waterstains, margin of title-page restored), Koeman Me3:
“The Ptolemy edition of 1605 is the first work printed in Greek
at Amsterdam and a typographic masterpiece”. Phillips 421.
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