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GRYNAEUS, Simon (1493-1541, editor) and Johann HUTTICH (?1480-1544, compiler). Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum una cum tabula cosmographica ... Adiecta est huic postremae editioni navigatio Caroli Caesaris auspicio in comitiis Augustanis instituta. Basel: Joannes Hervagius, September 1555.
2° (335 x 203mm). Woodcut printer's device by Hans Holbein the younger [Hollstein German 'Hans Holbein the Younger' 90d] on title and repeated on 2B8v. Woodcut world map [?]by Sebastian Münster and Holbein [Hollstein 90a; Shirley The Mapping of the World 67]. Woodcut illustration and diagram by Holbein [Hollstein 90b-c], and initials. With blank \Kg\k8. (Occasional light marking, light marginal dampstaining encroaching onto text in final quires, minor marginal worming on leaves \Ka\k-a3, paper flaw affecting text on \Kg\k3, world map with slight browning, unobtrusive fine worming and small tears on folds and outer margin, margin reinforced on verso, reguarded.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin, boards panelled with figurative and decorative rolls, upper board with central gilt arms of Wispenninck, dated below '1564' (minor marking, some discoloration and staining, upper board and lower pastedown slightly wormed, lacking fore-edge clasps, upper hinge split). Provenance: early annotations and underlinings -- Wispenninck family of Guelders (binding) -- Marie comtesse d'Esterházy, Nordkirchen (1809-1861, née Comtesse de Plettenberg, married Count Nicholas Francis Esterházy in 1833, bookplate on upper pastedown with Esterházy-Plettenberg arms) -- [?]Duke Engelbert-Marie d'Arenberg (1872-1949, provenance noted as 'Aus dem Besitz der Herzoge von Aremberg [sic]' on:) -- loosely-inserted bookseller's description date-stamped 24 June 1952.
THE NORDKIRCHEN COPY OF THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION, RETAINING THE MüNSTER-HOLBEIN WORLD MAP, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. The Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum is a collection of accounts of the new world that was first published in Basel by Hervagius in 1532, and subsequently enlarged and reissued; the present edition (for which the four accounts on pp.538-677, including those of Cortez were added) is the most complete. The present copy retains the world map which is frequently absent, and appears in all Basel editions of the work (the Paris edition used a map by Oronce Finé). Although the authorship of the map is not certainly known, Shirley suggests that the map itself was by Münster (who also wrote the article 'Typi cosmographici et declaratio et usus' that appears on *1r-*6v) and that the decorative woodcut surround was the work of Hans Holbein the younger, judging that 'geographically the map is quite antiquated'; however, 'what [it] lacks in precision it gains in richness of artistic decoration. Huge sea-monsters, mermaids, and an early high-pooped galleon embellish the oceans. The surrounding border to the map is filled with vivid vignettes of real or outlandish local scenes -- winged serpents, grotesquely big-lipped natives, hunting scenes and feasting cannibals'. Various states of this map are recorded; the present copy is that illustrated by Hollstein, with the legend 'TROPICUS CAPRICORNI' appearing below the tropic-line and the legend 'ASIA' at a similar level to 'Mare Caspiã'. Adams G-1338; Brunet IV, 132; JCB I, pp.185-6; Sabin 34,104.
2° (335 x 203mm). Woodcut printer's device by Hans Holbein the younger [Hollstein German 'Hans Holbein the Younger' 90d] on title and repeated on 2B8v. Woodcut world map [?]by Sebastian Münster and Holbein [Hollstein 90a; Shirley The Mapping of the World 67]. Woodcut illustration and diagram by Holbein [Hollstein 90b-c], and initials. With blank \Kg\k8. (Occasional light marking, light marginal dampstaining encroaching onto text in final quires, minor marginal worming on leaves \Ka\k-a3, paper flaw affecting text on \Kg\k3, world map with slight browning, unobtrusive fine worming and small tears on folds and outer margin, margin reinforced on verso, reguarded.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin, boards panelled with figurative and decorative rolls, upper board with central gilt arms of Wispenninck, dated below '1564' (minor marking, some discoloration and staining, upper board and lower pastedown slightly wormed, lacking fore-edge clasps, upper hinge split). Provenance: early annotations and underlinings -- Wispenninck family of Guelders (binding) -- Marie comtesse d'Esterházy, Nordkirchen (1809-1861, née Comtesse de Plettenberg, married Count Nicholas Francis Esterházy in 1833, bookplate on upper pastedown with Esterházy-Plettenberg arms) -- [?]Duke Engelbert-Marie d'Arenberg (1872-1949, provenance noted as 'Aus dem Besitz der Herzoge von Aremberg [sic]' on:) -- loosely-inserted bookseller's description date-stamped 24 June 1952.
THE NORDKIRCHEN COPY OF THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION, RETAINING THE MüNSTER-HOLBEIN WORLD MAP, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. The Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum is a collection of accounts of the new world that was first published in Basel by Hervagius in 1532, and subsequently enlarged and reissued; the present edition (for which the four accounts on pp.538-677, including those of Cortez were added) is the most complete. The present copy retains the world map which is frequently absent, and appears in all Basel editions of the work (the Paris edition used a map by Oronce Finé). Although the authorship of the map is not certainly known, Shirley suggests that the map itself was by Münster (who also wrote the article 'Typi cosmographici et declaratio et usus' that appears on *1r-*6v) and that the decorative woodcut surround was the work of Hans Holbein the younger, judging that 'geographically the map is quite antiquated'; however, 'what [it] lacks in precision it gains in richness of artistic decoration. Huge sea-monsters, mermaids, and an early high-pooped galleon embellish the oceans. The surrounding border to the map is filled with vivid vignettes of real or outlandish local scenes -- winged serpents, grotesquely big-lipped natives, hunting scenes and feasting cannibals'. Various states of this map are recorded; the present copy is that illustrated by Hollstein, with the legend 'TROPICUS CAPRICORNI' appearing below the tropic-line and the legend 'ASIA' at a similar level to 'Mare Caspiã'. Adams G-1338; Brunet IV, 132; JCB I, pp.185-6; Sabin 34,104.
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