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CLUVERIUS, Philippus (1580-1622). Introductionis in universam geographiam. Amsterdam: J. Wolters, 1697. 4° (226 x 171mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, additional title, 2 plates, table and 43 folding maps, 2 typographic folding tables, woodcut of a printing press to Sss4r. (Occasional light browning to text leaves.) Contemporary vellum, lettered in ink to spine (extremities lightly rubbed, classmark removed from foot of spine).
CLUVERIUS, Philippus (1580-1622). Introductionis in universam geographiam. Amsterdam: J. Wolters, 1697. 4° (226 x 171mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, additional title, 2 plates, table and 43 folding maps, 2 typographic folding tables, woodcut of a printing press to Sss4r. (Occasional light browning to text leaves.) Contemporary vellum, lettered in ink to spine (extremities lightly rubbed, classmark removed from foot of spine).

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CLUVERIUS, Philippus (1580-1622). Introductionis in universam geographiam. Amsterdam: J. Wolters, 1697. 4° (226 x 171mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, additional title, 2 plates, table and 43 folding maps, 2 typographic folding tables, woodcut of a printing press to Sss4r. (Occasional light browning to text leaves.) Contemporary vellum, lettered in ink to spine (extremities lightly rubbed, classmark removed from foot of spine).

A CRISP COPY OF 'THE MOST POPULAR HISTORY BOOK FOR OVER A CENTURY' (Nordenskiöld, after Tiele). The first editions were issued in the 1620s, but the Wolfenbüttel edition of 1641 was probably the first to contain maps. Nordenskiöld 45; Shirley BL T.CLUV-8b.

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