Epitome trium terrae partium. Asiae, Africae et Europae, compendiariam locorum descriptionem continens.

VADIANUS, Joachim (1484-1551).

Verlag: Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1534

Beschreibung

Folio (11 ½ x 8 in.; 29.2 x 20.3 cm). Woodcut publisher's device on title-page, woodcut initials, double-page woodcut map "Typus cosmographicus universalis | Tiguri Anno MDXXXIIII" (Shirley 70). BINDING/CONDITION: Minor light dampstaining along bottom margin of a few quires. Modern paneled calf antique. (64V1H) FIRST EDITION of an influential description of the world, with substantial references to the New World in the chapter "Insulae oceani praecipuae,' beginning on page 263. The principal source for this map is the Waldseemüller map of 1507, which was adapted by Sebastian Münster in Grynaeus' Novis orbis regionum (Basel 1532). The present map is a simplified and reduced size copy of Münster's map, of which there were no later editions, although a few copies of a second state are known with the imprint Apud Io. Ludoicum & Guilelmum Richart 1542. It is one of the first maps to show the complete outline of the South American continent which here is simply named "America." North America is labeled "Terra de Cuba." PROVENANCE: Contemporary inscription at the foot of the title-page and scholarly marginal notes throughout. REFERENCES: Adams V-10; Harrisse 189; JCB I:115; Sabin 98279 (erroneously dated 1533); VD16 V-20. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 65ERM0085

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Titel: Epitome trium terrae partium. Asiae, Africae...

Verlag: Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1534

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