Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Bearb.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 2) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-2]

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ANCIENT CLASSICS. [Ulm ; 1482.

opposite p. 300 ante. The first of these Winds, to the left, is called
AFRICVS. VEL. LIBS the second, ‘ WLTVRNVS.* EVRVS.f

On the reverse of the last map wc have the following imprint,
at the end of a table, followed by a memorandum concerning the
zodiac:

CLAVDII PTOLOMEI VIRI A
LEXANDRINI COSMOGRAPHIE
OCTAVVS ET VLTIMVS LIBER
EXPLICIT

OPVS DONNI NICOLAI GERMA
NI SECVNDVM PTOLOMEVM
FINIT.

ANNO MCCCCLXXXII. AVGV

* Sic.

t These seem to indicate wood-cutting as the means of operation to produce the originals
—and as it is, in fact, put in force to produce the 'present (above) effect— but how sucli a large
and intricate map, measuring nearly 21 inches in length, by 16 inches in width or breadth,
and covered with a profusion of characters, could have been executed upon one block of
wood, (for there seems no interruption whatever) may be somewhat difficult to account for.
Yet the indentation is hardly deep and sharp enough for the result of an operation by
means of metal.