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Among the woodcuts are not only two volvelles (the movable part of a third woodcut appears lost) but also a globe map of Europe, Africa, and part of Asia on leaf F5v (apparently an improved version of the "Globus Mundi" map mentioned by Shirley on p. Includes Melanchthon's 1531 preface as well as his 1538 dedication, in the name of Rheticus, to Achilles Gasser. I: Rare edition of the most important astronomical work of the Middle Ages: a reissue of the 1545 edition with only the colophon changed (the earlier year of publication is preserved on the separate title of part two, "De anni ratione" ). Fine sammelband of astronomical and geographical works, annotated and brilliantly coloured throughout by a contemporary owner. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin (wanting clasps). Final 14 leaves comprise the atlas "Circuli sphaerae cum V zonis" with half-title woodcut, 2 smaller woodcuts in the text, and 13 woodcut maps (12 double-page, 1 full-page), all in stark contemporary colour. De variarum rerum nomenclaturis per classes, liber I. Rudimentorum cosmographicorum libri III cum tabellis geographicis elegantissimis. With two folding tables, woodcut device on titile-page, an initial and a diagram in the text, all woodcuts in contemp. Quaestiones novae in libellum de sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, in gratiam studiosae iuventutis collectae ab Ariele Bicardo. Illustrated throughout with woodcut diagrams and spheres, 2 with movable parts, nearly all in stark contemporary colour. With woodcut device in contemporary colour on title-page. (lacking 4 leaves: J8, K1, 4-5), 2 blank ff. Honter's work was extremely popular and reprinted many times, often with classical texts. Johann Honter was a German theologian working in Transylvania, his pocket geography "Rudimentorum Cosmographiae" was first published in Kracow in 1530 with only two maps, including a world map which was a simplified and reduced version of Waldseemuller's world map of 1513. Other maps include France, Germany, eastern Europe, the Slavic countries, Greece, Persia, Asia, northern Africa, and Sicily. The map of Spain is printed on the verso. The last section of Honter's "Rudimenta cosmographica", sometimes issued separately as here, with an intermediary state of his celebrated cordiform world map with South America shown to be separate from North America, which is called "Parsia" here after Columbus, without the engraver's initials and undated, and before the addition of winds in the margins.
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Modern green roan, gilt (extremities worn with minor loss). With a fine woodcuts of the planetary orbits, a globe surrounded by the names of the winds, a double-page cordiform map of the world, ten double-page maps, and one full-page map. Title-page with woodcut vignette of an armillary sphere.
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