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VARENIUS, Bernhard (1622-1650). Geographia generalis in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1650.
12o (125 x 74 mm). Engraved title, one woodcut folding plate and 4 printed folding tables. Contemporary red morocco, covers paneled in gilt, spine elaborately gilt, g.e. (minor staining to upper cover). Provenance: G. Ferri and G.B.F. (old ink stamp on verso of *6).
FIRST EDITION. "The best known of Varenius' works. The Geographia generalis established a framework for physical geography capable of including new facts of discovery as they arose. The work became the standard geographic text for more than a century" (DSB). The first English edition (1672) was edited by Isaac Newton. Willems 1120; Norman 2130.
12o (125 x 74 mm). Engraved title, one woodcut folding plate and 4 printed folding tables. Contemporary red morocco, covers paneled in gilt, spine elaborately gilt, g.e. (minor staining to upper cover). Provenance: G. Ferri and G.B.F. (old ink stamp on verso of *6).
FIRST EDITION. "The best known of Varenius' works. The Geographia generalis established a framework for physical geography capable of including new facts of discovery as they arose. The work became the standard geographic text for more than a century" (DSB). The first English edition (1672) was edited by Isaac Newton. Willems 1120; Norman 2130.