Cosmographiae vniuersalis lib. VI. in quibus iuxta certioris fidei scriptores, sine omni cuiuscunq[ue] molestia, uel læsione, describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partium situs propriæq[ue] dotes. regionum topographicæ picturæ
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Type of record: Book
Title: Cosmographiae vniuersalis lib. VI. in quibus iuxta certioris fidei scriptores, sine omni cuiuscunq[ue] molestia, uel læsione, describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partium situs propriæq[ue] dotes. regionum topographicæ picturæ
Other titles: Cosmographia; Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI
Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 441
Creator(s): Münster, Sebastian (1489-1552)
Publisher: ex officina Henricpetrina
Publication city: Basileæ
Date(s): mense Martio, Anno Salutis M.D.LXXII. [Mar. 1572]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [188], 1333, [3] p., 25 double leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299362
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004013719705181
Description
Contains 25 double-page maps similar to those designed by Munster for inclusion in his edition of Ptolemy's Geography of 1540. These maps were probably engraved on wood, but the letterings are apparently printed from metal type. There are also many hundreds of wood engravings showing:- birds-eye views of towns, costumes of the peoples, avocations, trades, jousts, cannibals, freaks, etc.--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 131.
Date of publication from colophon.
Numerous errors in pagination.
Printer's device on title page.
There are 3 folding views which comprise eight pages each: the first found between pages 588 and 593 is numbered 589-590 and has the first leaf signed 003; the second and third found between pages 750-755, and 822 and 827, are numbered 751-752 and 823-825 and are signed EEe2-EEe3 and MMm4-MMm5.
Pages 1260-1279: De novis insulis.
Includes index.
Indexed in: JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675 1:249; not recorded by Phillips.
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