Description
- Notes:
- Raccolta primo da diuersi autori per Sebastiano Munstero, & dapoi corretta & repurgata, per gli Censori ecclesiastici, & quei del re catholico nelli paesi bassi, & per l'inquisitore di Venetia.
- Translation of: Cosmographia. Beschreibung aller Lender. 1544. First published in Italian as: Sei libri della cosmografia universale. Basel : H. Petri, 1558.
- Signatures: [dagger]² 2[dagger]⁴ A-B⁶ C-F⁶/⁸ G⁴ H-I² K⁶ L⁴ M-O⁸ P-Q² R⁸ S¹° T-V⁴ X-Z⁸ Aa-Dd⁸ Ee⁴ Ff⁶ Gg¹°(-Gg10) Hh⁸ Ii² Kk-Ll⁸ Mm-Nn² Oo-Pp⁴ Qq² Rr-Ss⁴ Tt-Vv⁸ Xx-Yy⁴ Zz² AA⁴ BB-CC² DD⁴ EE⁴ FF⁶ GG-HH² II-KK⁶ LL-NN⁴ OO⁸ PP-RR⁸ TT¹° VV⁶ XX¹° YY⁴ ZZ² AAa⁴ BBb¹⁴ CCc-Ddd² EEe¹⁴ FFf² GGg¹° HHh-IIi⁴ KKk-LLl⁸ MMm⁶ NNn² OOo-PPp⁸ QQq⁴ RRr-ZZz⁸ AAA-KKK⁸ LLL⁶ (LLL6 verso blank; numerous missigned leaves; gathering SS is reserved for one of the views)
- Numerous errors in pagination.
- Printer's device on title page.
- There are 3 views which comprise 8 leaves each: the first found between pages 548 and 549 is unnumbered and signed EE3; the second found between pages 684 and 691 is numbered 685-689 and forms gathering SS; the third found between pages 752 and 755 is numbered 753-755 and signed ZZ2 and ZZ5.
- The corrections and expurgations mentioned on the title page are in the form of numerous cancels, pasting over, and crossing out with ink.
- Includes index.
- Pages 1178-1192: Delle nuove isole.
Citation
"Cosmographia vniuersale, nella quale secondo che n'hanno parlato : ipiu veraci scrittori, son designati i siti di tutti gli paësi. I siti de tutte le parti del mondo habitabile, & le proprie doti: le tauole topographice delle regioni"
(1575).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:581371/
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