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APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552). Cosmographia. Edited and with additions by Reiner Gemma Frisius (1508-1555). Antwerp: Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius de Bonte, 1545.
4° (229 x 154mm). Large woodcut of a globe on title, woodcut publisher's device at end, numerous woodcut maps, charts and diagrams, folding map, 4 woodcuts with volvelles or non-moving attachments: c2v (one volvelle), d1v (one attachment, 2 volvelles, 2 strings), h2r (2 volvelles), O3r (2 volvelles), O4v (2 attachments); no volvelle on c3v. (Lower edge of folding map detached but present.) Contemporary limp vellum, remains of two ties, fragments of an early printed French text as spine liner (a few light stains). Provenance: Carolus Albertus and Abraham Pury, 1753 (title inscription recording the book becoming Carlo-Alberto's alone after a division of their books on 15 August 1774) -- purchased from W.H. Lowdermilk, Washington, D.C., 24 December 1952, $112.
The present edition of Apianus, corrected and augmented by the geographer and mathematician Gemma Frisius, contains his important treatise on triangulation in which he was the first to propose it as a means of locating and mapping places. It had first appeared in his 1533 edition of Apianus. The armillary sphere on 4v and the volvelle on 9r bear the monogram of Gemma Frisius. Chapter 8 is devoted to America. Adams A-1279; BLSTC Dutch, p.12; Sabin 1748; Van Ortroy 36.
4° (229 x 154mm). Large woodcut of a globe on title, woodcut publisher's device at end, numerous woodcut maps, charts and diagrams, folding map, 4 woodcuts with volvelles or non-moving attachments: c2v (one volvelle), d1v (one attachment, 2 volvelles, 2 strings), h2r (2 volvelles), O3r (2 volvelles), O4v (2 attachments); no volvelle on c3v. (Lower edge of folding map detached but present.) Contemporary limp vellum, remains of two ties, fragments of an early printed French text as spine liner (a few light stains). Provenance: Carolus Albertus and Abraham Pury, 1753 (title inscription recording the book becoming Carlo-Alberto's alone after a division of their books on 15 August 1774) -- purchased from W.H. Lowdermilk, Washington, D.C., 24 December 1952, $112.
The present edition of Apianus, corrected and augmented by the geographer and mathematician Gemma Frisius, contains his important treatise on triangulation in which he was the first to propose it as a means of locating and mapping places. It had first appeared in his 1533 edition of Apianus. The armillary sphere on 4v and the volvelle on 9r bear the monogram of Gemma Frisius. Chapter 8 is devoted to America. Adams A-1279; BLSTC Dutch, p.12; Sabin 1748; Van Ortroy 36.
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