Cosmographia Petri Apiani / per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicum insignẽ, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, figurísque nouis illustrata: additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmæ Frisii.
- Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.
- Date:
- 1551 [i.e. 1553]
- Books
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Parisiis : Væneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot, via Iacobea: sub intersignio D. Martini, 1551 [i.e. 1553]
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2 unnumbered leaves, 74 (i. e. 70) numbered leaves : woodcut on title page, woodcuts (4 with movable dials), illustrations, plate, folded map, tables, diagrams ; (4to)
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Colophon: Parisiis impressum expensis Viuantii Gaultherot anno Domini 1553. Reissue of 1551 ed. with folding woodcut inserted between ff. 21 and 22
Signatures: A-H, K-T⁴. Sig I (1, 31-34) reserved for map of the world
Fiiij signed Eiiij
Printed in italics. Fol. 37-56 in double columns
Revolving diagrams on verso of ℓ. 8 and 11, and on recto of ℓ. 30 and 57. Inscriptions on these diagrams, also on some of the illustrations in the text, are in French
Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione ... per Gemmam Frisivm: ℓ. 59-66
Vsvs annvli astronomici, Gemma Frisio ... auctore: ℓ. 66 (verso)-73
cf. Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. nos. 41 and 44.
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