Mylius, Arnold (sold)
Arnold Mylius (October 16, 1540 - November 17, 1604) was a German bookseller, editor, and printer, living and trading in Cologne between 1585 and 1604. He was born in Freimersheim, Germany. He was trained in Antwerp under Arnold Birckmann, and took over management of Birckmann's firm on behalf of his heirs and eventually taking over the Birckmann publishing house himself. During his time in Antwerp he would collaborate with luminaries such as Plantin. Possibly to escape the religious conflicts of the Low Countries, he left Antwerp for Cologne, where he would marry. He would publish over 200 books; his work extended into the geographical world with his edit of Willibald Pirckheimer's translation of Ptolemy's Geographia appearing in Gerard Mercator's 1584 Cl Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographiae libri octo.
Superb example of the most finely-engraved Ptolemy, with beautiful original color.
Cl Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographiae libri octo: recognitiiam diligenter emendati cum tabulis geographicis ad mentem auctoris restitutis ac emendatis, per Gerardum Mercatorem.
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This is a superb example of Gerard Mercator's Cl Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographiae Libri Octo: the 1584 first edition of the full proto-atlas, featuring Willibald Pirckheimer's translation of Claudius Ptolemy's text edited by Arnold Mylius, accompanied by 28 maps in rich, original color. Moreover, the present volume is bound with Mercator's contemporary atlas of France and the Low Countries, Galliae Tabule Geographicae. These volumes were probably joined in the 18th century when this volume was bound. The book thus presents Mercator's earliest published books in a superb, unique example. It is one of the few of Mercator's books to be published in his lifetime. (more details)