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APIANUS, Petrus Cosmographia, sive Descriptio universi orbis [...]. Antwerp J. Withagius for J. Bellerus 1584 4to: [16]-478 [= 469]-[2] pp. (copy very slightly browned, sm. tears and a few corners repaired, marg. wormholes, occ. marg. holes, edges frayed). Mod. overl. vellum "à l'antique", ink-titled spine with raised bands (renewed endpapers foxed). Major geographical and astronomical work (1st 1524) by Apian edited and enlarged by Gemma Frisius, with some additional treatises of Frisius (i.a. the "De locorum describendorum ratione" on using triangulation for correct cartographic calculations, and with some chapters posthumously added by his oldest son Cornelius Gemma). This version of the Cosmographia became one of the most popular books on the subject of the time. Abundantly illustrated with woodcuts in the text and some full-page illustrations - among which 4 globes with volvelles -, a double-page world map "Charta Cosmographica", a large globe on the title-page and historiated or ornamental initials. Ref. BB I:89. - Van Ortroy 32. - BT 142. - STC Dutch 12. - Wellcome I:346. - Adams A-1286. - Shirley 96. - Not in Machiels, Sabin (other ed.).

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APIANUS, Petrus Cosmographia, sive Descriptio universi orbis [...]. Antwerp J. Withagius for J. Bellerus 1584 4to: [16]-478 [= 469]-[2] pp. (copy very slightly browned, sm. tears and a few corners repaired, marg. wormholes, occ. marg. holes, edges frayed). Mod. overl. vellum "à l'antique", ink-titled spine with raised bands (renewed endpapers foxed). Major geographical and astronomical work (1st 1524) by Apian edited and enlarged by Gemma Frisius, with some additional treatises of Frisius (i.a. the "De locorum describendorum ratione" on using triangulation for correct cartographic calculations, and with some chapters posthumously added by his oldest son Cornelius Gemma). This version of the Cosmographia became one of the most popular books on the subject of the time. Abundantly illustrated with woodcuts in the text and some full-page illustrations - among which 4 globes with volvelles -, a double-page world map "Charta Cosmographica", a large globe on the title-page and historiated or ornamental initials. Ref. BB I:89. - Van Ortroy 32. - BT 142. - STC Dutch 12. - Wellcome I:346. - Adams A-1286. - Shirley 96. - Not in Machiels, Sabin (other ed.).

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