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APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1522). Cosmographie, ou description des quatre parties du Monde... Corrigée & augmentée par Gemma Frison. Antwerp: Jean Bellere, 1581.
4o (252 x 175 mm). Title with woodcut of globe, 4 woodcut volvelles on C2v, D1v, I1v and 2B3r, that on D1v with strings and seedpearls, woodcut on 3Cv with string pointer, folding double-page world map (laid-in), numerous woodcut astronomical and geographical text illustrations and diagrams, initials and printer's devices. (Some pale marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: Chezon (inscription on title); Suzanne de Laval (signature on title).
Second edition in French, enlarged to include American material derived from the Spanish edition (Antwerp, 1575), without the two separate diagrams affixed to 2B4v, as usual. 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. Gemma's most important contribution is the chapter which contains the earliest description of triangulation as a means of accurate surveying and mapping. Alden and Landis 581/2; JCB I:283; Van Ortoy 57; Sabin 1751n.
4o (252 x 175 mm). Title with woodcut of globe, 4 woodcut volvelles on C2v, D1v, I1v and 2B3r, that on D1v with strings and seedpearls, woodcut on 3Cv with string pointer, folding double-page world map (laid-in), numerous woodcut astronomical and geographical text illustrations and diagrams, initials and printer's devices. (Some pale marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: Chezon (inscription on title); Suzanne de Laval (signature on title).
Second edition in French, enlarged to include American material derived from the Spanish edition (Antwerp, 1575), without the two separate diagrams affixed to 2B4v, as usual. 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. Gemma's most important contribution is the chapter which contains the earliest description of triangulation as a means of accurate surveying and mapping. Alden and Landis 581/2; JCB I:283; Van Ortoy 57; Sabin 1751n.