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PIRCKHEIMER, Wilibald. Descriptio Germaniae utriusque tam superioris quam inferioris. With five other works by various authors. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1585-1584.
3 parts in 1 volume, 8° (155 x 100mm.). Woodcut printer's devices on titles, 1 folding woodcut map of Northern Europe (repaired along fold), 2 folding engraved plates of monuments (neat repair to one), engraved and woodcut illustrations, 1 full-page. 17th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (small splits in joints).
First edition thus. It is clear from the list of contents on the verso of the first title that this collection of works is as issued. It includes the sheets of two works that were issued independently in 1584 (cf. Adams D-697; O-349). The texts included are:
Part I.
W. PIRCKHEIMER. [as above]
Hermann, Graf von NEUENAR. Brevis narratio De sedibus & origine Francorum.
Hubert Thomas LEODIUS. De Tungris & Eburonibus.
Part II.
Petrus DIVAEUS. De Galliae Belgicae antiquitatibus lib. I
Hermann, Graf von NEUENAR. De Gallia Belgica Commentariolus. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1584. (First gathering with repaired worm track in outer bottom corner, slight worming to outer margin of D8.)
Part III.
Abraham ORTELIUS and Joannes VIVIAN. Itinerarium per Nonnullas Galliae Belgicae Partes. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1584. (Slight browning.)
3 parts in 1 volume, 8° (155 x 100mm.). Woodcut printer's devices on titles, 1 folding woodcut map of Northern Europe (repaired along fold), 2 folding engraved plates of monuments (neat repair to one), engraved and woodcut illustrations, 1 full-page. 17th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (small splits in joints).
First edition thus. It is clear from the list of contents on the verso of the first title that this collection of works is as issued. It includes the sheets of two works that were issued independently in 1584 (cf. Adams D-697; O-349). The texts included are:
Part I.
W. PIRCKHEIMER. [as above]
Hermann, Graf von NEUENAR. Brevis narratio De sedibus & origine Francorum.
Hubert Thomas LEODIUS. De Tungris & Eburonibus.
Part II.
Petrus DIVAEUS. De Galliae Belgicae antiquitatibus lib. I
Hermann, Graf von NEUENAR. De Gallia Belgica Commentariolus. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1584. (First gathering with repaired worm track in outer bottom corner, slight worming to outer margin of D8.)
Part III.
Abraham ORTELIUS and Joannes VIVIAN. Itinerarium per Nonnullas Galliae Belgicae Partes. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1584. (Slight browning.)