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APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552). Cosmographiae. Venice: Francesco Bidoni and Maffeo Pasini, May 1537.
Small 4° (160 x 106mm). Title with large woodcut illustration, 25 woodcut illustrations, including one full-page and a map of Greece (repeated), printer’s device on recto of final leaf. (Title lightly soiled and repaired along gutter, lower corner of following leaf with small repair, wormtrack in outer margin of last 3 leaves closed.) Modern vellum (new endpapers).
SCARCE VENICE EDITION. Intended to be an introduction to Apian’s Cosmographicus liber, the work contains a chapter dealing with basics of astronomy, depicting armillary spheres, etc. The second part concentrates on the physical geography, containing a description of the four parts of the world, and a map of Greece. EDIT CNCE 13621.
Small 4° (160 x 106mm). Title with large woodcut illustration, 25 woodcut illustrations, including one full-page and a map of Greece (repeated), printer’s device on recto of final leaf. (Title lightly soiled and repaired along gutter, lower corner of following leaf with small repair, wormtrack in outer margin of last 3 leaves closed.) Modern vellum (new endpapers).
SCARCE VENICE EDITION. Intended to be an introduction to Apian’s Cosmographicus liber, the work contains a chapter dealing with basics of astronomy, depicting armillary spheres, etc. The second part concentrates on the physical geography, containing a description of the four parts of the world, and a map of Greece. EDIT CNCE 13621.
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