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copper engraving, with header “Descrittione dell’ Asia” and “Libro Terzo”, Italian text on verso: “Dell’India Tercera, Tavola Nuova di Asia”, p. 121. Map after Gastaldi from “La Geographia: Descrittione dell’ Asia”, 3rd vol., p. 122; showing several detailed Philippine Islands without Luzon, as unknown at that time: Candingan = Sarangani; Caylo = Panaon; Cubu = Cebu; Hohol = Bohol (?); Mendana = Mindanao; Negros; Polaguan = Palawan. Sumatra is ‘Camatra’; Java is ‘Java Mazor’; Borneo is ‘Java Menor’. This is Ruscelli’s 4th edition Italian translation from the Greek of Ptolemy’s Geographia. Revised, expanded and edited by Giuseppe Rosaccio, included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti, issued in Venice several times between 1561 and ca. 1600. Claudius Ptolemaeus (90-168 CE), a Roman geographer and mathematician living in Egypt, who compiled his knowledge and theories about the world’s geography into one seminal work.
with centrefold as issued.
