Author: HONTERUS, Johannes. Title: Rudimentorum cosmographicorum libri III. Cum tabellis geographicis elegantiss(imis).
Description: Antwerpen, Johannes Richard, 1555. Sm-8vo. (13, 7x8, 6 cm.) 2 parts in 1 volume. [48 pp.] & 28 pp. With woodcut printers device on first title-page, and in the second part: woodcut of circular sphere on second title-page, three single-page maps (our solar system, wind regions, Sicily) and 12 double page maps (Honter's Universalis cosmographia including the Americas; Iberic peninsula; France and surroundings; Germany and surroundings; Eastern Europe incl.Moscovia; the Balkans; Greece; Italy; the Near East; Asia Minor (Turkey); Arabia and India; Northern half of Africa). Later half-vellum. (slightly trimmed (without loss); water-stain in the upper part, small marginal water-stain in the bottom corner of the last two leaves; a few old marginal annotations; old owners' entries on title page) ¶ First printed in Krakow in 1530. The 16 maps (that still show ptolemaic influences) were incorporated for the first time in the 1542 edition. (Das Kartenbild der Renaissance 1977. p. 54) ¶ Jean Richard published this book five times between 1550 and 1560. Pettegree & Walsby, Netherlandish Books 15572. The World of Learning 670.
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Price: EUR 3700.00 = appr. US$ 4021.33 Seller: Antiquariaat Brinkman
- Book number: 136415
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