VARENIUS, Bernhard (1622-1650). Geographia generalis in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1650.
VARENIUS, Bernhard (1622-1650). Geographia generalis in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1650.

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VARENIUS, Bernhard (1622-1650). Geographia generalis in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1650.

12o (120 x 74 mm). Engraved title, one woodcut folding plate and 4 printed folding tables. (Some occasional marginal worming catching a few letters, upper margin trimmed close affecting a few head-lines and foliations.) Contemporary vellum, spine ink-lettered (light worming to covers and endpapers).

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. Norman 2130; Willems 1120.

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