Apianus, Petrus (1495-1552) Cosmographia.
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Apianus, Petrus (1495-1552)
Cosmographia. Giles Coppenius for Arnold Berckmann, 1540.Quarto, A-O4, P, two parts in one volume, edited by Regnier Gemma Frisius (1508-1555), illustrated with fifty-one woodcut illustrations and diagrams, with four of five fully constructed and intact volvelles, (one without moving parts); woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf; bound in contemporary or near-contemporary parchment over boards, lettering on spine; spine covering fragmentary at sewing supports; final dozen pages with a small portion of upper outside blank margin nibbled away with slight loss, 8 1/2 x 6 in.Fairfax Murray German 40; Sabin 1745; Alden 540/2.Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.
Cosmographia. Giles Coppenius for Arnold Berckmann, 1540.Quarto, A-O4, P, two parts in one volume, edited by Regnier Gemma Frisius (1508-1555), illustrated with fifty-one woodcut illustrations and diagrams, with four of five fully constructed and intact volvelles, (one without moving parts); woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf; bound in contemporary or near-contemporary parchment over boards, lettering on spine; spine covering fragmentary at sewing supports; final dozen pages with a small portion of upper outside blank margin nibbled away with slight loss, 8 1/2 x 6 in.Fairfax Murray German 40; Sabin 1745; Alden 540/2.Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.
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