1540 COSMOGRAPHIA by APIANUS antique ILLUSTRATED 5 VOLVELLES WOODCUTS astronomy
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1540 COSMOGRAPHIA by APIANUS antique ILLUSTRATED 5 VOLVELLES WOODCUTS astronomy

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Cosmographia, per gemmam Phrysium, apud Louanienses Medicum ac Mathematicarum insignem, Denuo restituta. Additis de eadem re ipsius Gemmae Phry. Libellis, quos sequens pagina docet.by APIANUS, Petri Apiani.Antwerp, A. Copenius for A. Berckmann; 1540 With globe title woodcut, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams (including 5 volvelles - movable parts) and numerous historiated initials printer's device to last leafIllustrations demonstrating the astronomical, cartological, mathematical and geographical concepts discussed in the treatise.59 (of 61) leavesBinding made of early manuscript. Housed in modern vellum slip case.-Index Aureliensis 106.430. Nijhoff-Kronenberg 126. Sabin 1745. Alden-L. 540/2. Church 78. van Ortroy, Apian 31 & Gemma Frisius 12. - Early edition (edited by Apianus's student Gemma Frisius (1508-1555)) of this important textbook on cosmography, first published in 1524.Also contains two contributions by Gemma Frisius, his "Libellus de locorum describen

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