Description
- Notes:
- First published under this title, Zurich, 1548.
- Originally published under title: Rudimentorum cosmographiae libri duo. Cracow, 1530.
- Title vignette: Printer's device.
- In verse.
- Signatures: A-D⁸ a-d⁴ (A1 verso, D7-D8, d3-d4 blank)
- Includes section of woodcuts, consisting of 3 illustrations and 13 maps, all unnumbered (p.[65-92], a1-d2). 12 of these maps cover two pages each and are printed on adjacent versos and rectos (p.[68/69-90/91])
- World map, datd Tiguri, 1746, bears monogram of Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder and includes America [=South America], while North America is designated as "Parias" (p.[68])
Citation
"Rudimentorum cosmographicorum Ioan. Honteri Coronensis libri III. cum tabellis geographicis elegantissimis:
De variarum rerum nomenclaturis per classes, liber I
"
(1565).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:580454/
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