APIANUS, PETRUS & FRISIUS, GEMMA
Cosmographia, sive descriptio universi orbis. Adiecti sunt alii, tum Gemmae Frisii, tum aliorum auctorum eius argumenti tractatus ac libelli varij.
4to (cm 23.5), late 18th cent. half vellum with corners, mss. title on spine, some browning inside fo rthe own quality of the paper, for else a good copy. Woodcut device on title showing a globe, pp. (16), 1-72, [73-81 omitted, counted as the folding world map], pp. 82-478, (5, of which 3 blanks), text illustrated throughout with several beautiful astronomical woodcuts, diagrams, numer. tables, etc. and 4 woodcuts with volvelles (at pt. 20, 25, 65 and 189), and the woodcut doublepage world map, counted as quire 'K'. One of numerous 16th-century editions of Apianus' popular geographical and astronomical treatise, in the enlarged and modified version of his student, the globe- and instrument-maker Gemma Frisius, first published in 1529 and further enlarged in 1530. Sabin 1751: "Clement pronounces this the best edition". IA 106.467; Adams A-1286; Alden-L. 584/2; Van Ortroy, Apian 59 & Gemma Frisius 32.
Antverpiae, ex officina Arnoldi Coninx, 1584
€ 8.000,00
