HONTER, Johann (1498-1549).  Universalis Cosmographia. [?Zurich: Froschauer, 1546 [but c.1548 or later]. Woodcut cordiform map of the world on integral folio leaf with 3 woodcut initials and map of Sicily on verso (lower corner repaired on verso), dimensions of world map 120 x 168mm, dimensions of leaf 331 x 220mm. Harrisse 271; Nordenskiöld pp.111-112; Shirley 86: "In 1546 Honter's Rudimenta Cosmographica was republished in Zurich with thirteen maps. The heart-shaped [ie. "cordiform"] world map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's ... The monogram 'HVE' in the lower left-hand corner is that of the woodcutter Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder who was especially commissioned by the printer Froschauer."
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HONTER, Johann (1498-1549). Universalis Cosmographia. [?Zurich: Froschauer, 1546 [but c.1548 or later]. Woodcut cordiform map of the world on integral folio leaf with 3 woodcut initials and map of Sicily on verso (lower corner repaired on verso), dimensions of world map 120 x 168mm, dimensions of leaf 331 x 220mm. Harrisse 271; Nordenskiöld pp.111-112; Shirley 86: "In 1546 Honter's Rudimenta Cosmographica was republished in Zurich with thirteen maps. The heart-shaped [ie. "cordiform"] world map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's ... The monogram 'HVE' in the lower left-hand corner is that of the woodcutter Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder who was especially commissioned by the printer Froschauer."

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HONTER, Johann (1498-1549). Universalis Cosmographia. [?Zurich: Froschauer, 1546 [but c.1548 or later]. Woodcut cordiform map of the world on integral folio leaf with 3 woodcut initials and map of Sicily on verso (lower corner repaired on verso), dimensions of world map 120 x 168mm, dimensions of leaf 331 x 220mm. Harrisse 271; Nordenskiöld pp.111-112; Shirley 86: "In 1546 Honter's Rudimenta Cosmographica was republished in Zurich with thirteen maps. The heart-shaped [ie. "cordiform"] world map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's ... The monogram 'HVE' in the lower left-hand corner is that of the woodcutter Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder who was especially commissioned by the printer Froschauer."
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