ISTC: In two issues, the second of which has an added final leaf with a register and a colophon, apparently in 16th-century types (Goff). 31 copper-engraved maps. With the author's dedication to Federigo, duke of Urbino, who died 10 September 1482 (CIBN). An adaptation in terza rima of Ptolemy's Geographia with additions by Marsilius Ficinus (Goff). Cf. BMC VIp.629, for description of the other edition and date of printing.
Collation: [*]² aa¹⁰ bb⁸-dd⁸ ee⁶ ff⁸-gg⁸ hh⁶ ii⁴ a⁶ b¹⁰ c⁸-d⁸ [**]⁴ e⁸ [***]⁴ f¹⁰.
Imperfect, wanting one map, of Palestine (mentioned in earlier bibliophile note on front pastedown).
Presentation: 10- to 2-line capital spaces with guide-letters. Not coloured. Copper-engraved maps; see B. Maracchi Biagiarelli, "Niccolò Tedesco e le carte della geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri autore-editore", in Studi offerti a Roberto Ridolfi, ed. B. B. Maracchi and D. Rhodes (Florence, 1973), 377-97 (via Bod-Inc).
Text description: Black ink, roman font.
Signatures and foliation: Signatured for the most part (see collation), with errors: aa1 signatured a1, aa4-5 signatured aa3-4, bb4 not signatured, a1-2 not signatured, f1 not signatured, f3-5 signatured f2-4. Catchword at the end of gathering a.
In this copy unnamed gatherings [**] and [***] misbound: [**] bound between f7-8 (stabbed sewing visible), and [***] after gathering f (not as in Bod-Inc and GW).
Underlinings and glossae, notions on places in Latin (where a certain saint is buried etc.), especially concerning Italy and Spain.
On front flyleaf bibliophilical markings (also on an attached paper) and a leaf from a bookseller's catalogue.
On back pastedown attached a letter from an antiquarian bookdealer to Nordenskiöld, and Nordenskiöld's note. Letter as follows (in blue ink): "Mons. Le Maron A. De Nordenskiold. Stockholm | Je ne trouve nulle part ni les Tables de | Laf[i]eri, ni celle de Ptolemaeus 1508. Mais | in de mes clients serait disposè a se defaire d'un | magnifique exemplaire du Berlinghieri avec les | planches, mais il en veut 2000 francs. | Desirez vous que se teute l'avoir [a] moins, et | a quel prix pouvez vous l'accepter? | Votre tout devoué serviteur | Roma 9/8/1886 Silvio Rocca". Nordenskiölds note (: "Trop cher pour | moi - M[adam]e [Guarich?] | m'offre une copie ... | la quelle la cost(?) [or] pol.. | tui"