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VADIANUS, Joachim (1484-1551). Epitome trium terrae partium, Asiae, Africae et Europae compendiariam locorum descriptionem continens. Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1534.
2o (303 x 202 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, LARGE WOODCUT FOLDING MAP (Shirley 70), decorative woodcut initials (faint water-stain to margins). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (clasps lacking). Provenance: Munich, Carmelites ("Conventus Monacensis Carmelitan Discale" inscription on first title, "Conventus Monacensis,"19th-century armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of an influential description of the world, with references to the New World in the chapter "insulae Oceani praecipuae," beginning on page 263. With the rare world map, which Sabin says "is lacking in most of the copies located." It is one of the first maps to show the complete outline of the South American continent. Adams V-10; JCB I, p. 460; Sabin 98279; Shirley 70.
[Bound after:]
SOLINUS, Caius Julius (fl 3rd century). Polyhistor rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locupletissimus. - MELA, Pomponius. De orbis situ libri tres. Basel: Michael Isingrin and Heinrich Petri, 1538.
2 parts in one, 2o. 20 woodcut maps and plates (2 double page). (Some minor marginal worming and dampstaining).
FIRST EDITION, edited by Sebastian Münster. Münster is likely the cartographer for the "Asia Maior" folding map which contains "THE EARLIEST REPRESENTATION OF THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA ON A PRINTED MAP" (Burden). It takes the form of a land mass in the upper right corner labeled "Terra Incognita," and depicts a small bay, trees, and hills. Burden further notes that the Asia Maior map shows one of the first delineations of a strait between Asia and America, some two hundred years before Bering's voyages to the region. Burden Cartography of North America 11; BMC/STC German p.818.
[And:]
RHENANUS, Joannes (1485-1547). Rerum Germanicarum libri tres. Basel: Johann Froben, 1531. 2o. FIRST EDITION of this history of the Holy Roman Empire. Rhenanus the great Alsatian humanist, was associated with Froben and close friend of Erasmus. Adams R-439.
A REMARKABLE VOLUME, CONTAINING FOUR WORKS, ALMOST THE WHOLE SUM OF EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE TIME AND WITH THE RARE MAP BY VADIANUS.
2o (303 x 202 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, LARGE WOODCUT FOLDING MAP (Shirley 70), decorative woodcut initials (faint water-stain to margins). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (clasps lacking). Provenance: Munich, Carmelites ("Conventus Monacensis Carmelitan Discale" inscription on first title, "Conventus Monacensis,"19th-century armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of an influential description of the world, with references to the New World in the chapter "insulae Oceani praecipuae," beginning on page 263. With the rare world map, which Sabin says "is lacking in most of the copies located." It is one of the first maps to show the complete outline of the South American continent. Adams V-10; JCB I, p. 460; Sabin 98279; Shirley 70.
[Bound after:]
SOLINUS, Caius Julius (fl 3rd century). Polyhistor rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locupletissimus. - MELA, Pomponius. De orbis situ libri tres. Basel: Michael Isingrin and Heinrich Petri, 1538.
2 parts in one, 2o. 20 woodcut maps and plates (2 double page). (Some minor marginal worming and dampstaining).
FIRST EDITION, edited by Sebastian Münster. Münster is likely the cartographer for the "Asia Maior" folding map which contains "THE EARLIEST REPRESENTATION OF THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA ON A PRINTED MAP" (Burden). It takes the form of a land mass in the upper right corner labeled "Terra Incognita," and depicts a small bay, trees, and hills. Burden further notes that the Asia Maior map shows one of the first delineations of a strait between Asia and America, some two hundred years before Bering's voyages to the region. Burden Cartography of North America 11; BMC/STC German p.818.
[And:]
RHENANUS, Joannes (1485-1547). Rerum Germanicarum libri tres. Basel: Johann Froben, 1531. 2o. FIRST EDITION of this history of the Holy Roman Empire. Rhenanus the great Alsatian humanist, was associated with Froben and close friend of Erasmus. Adams R-439.
A REMARKABLE VOLUME, CONTAINING FOUR WORKS, ALMOST THE WHOLE SUM OF EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE TIME AND WITH THE RARE MAP BY VADIANUS.