Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1546 A.D. [62] |HONTER (John)|. Rudimenta Cosmographica. With the series of 13 woodcut maps, the folding map of the World shewing America. Small vignette on title. First Compiere Epirion. 12mo, green morocco (eighteenth century), g.e. (Zurich), Froschouer, 1546. (Sze ItLustration, Prats No. VIII). £35) Harrisse 271. John Carter Brown Catalogue 148. Sabin 382704. | The Heber-Herschel V. Jones copy. The little Atlas containing the 13 maps is found at the end of the volume. Humboldt seemed to think that it formed a separate work, sometimes bound up with the Cosmographia, yet the words ‘‘ cum tabellis Geographicis ’’ imply that the maps are part of the original work. The work itself is in the form of a p ; This is a very fascinating little book written by a very interesting person. John Honter, claimed both by Hungarians and Rumanians as their compatriot, was born in Cronstadt in Transylvania, educated at Basle and Cracow University, and became a Reformist, took refuge in Cracow, where he was appointed profé¢ssor of Geography in the University, and afterwards returned to Transylvania. / His biographers call him the first important reformer who introduced the Reformation into Transylvania. He died there in 1549. The book was a popular ong and passed through many editions. Some of these are described by Harrisse, Aube Estreicher, and most fully by the Hungarian bibiographer Szabo. 1546 A.D. [63] JERUSALEM. Le Grand Tremblement & espouentable Ruyne qui est advenue en la Cité de Jerusalem, & par tout la province dicelle, avec la Ruine de quatre Citez & de tout le pays circonvoysin. 12mo, levant morocco, gilt, g. e. Paris, on les vend a Venseigne S. Sebastien pres la porte S. Marcel. (1546). {£8 Ios. A curious and exceedingly scarce little work relating the damage done im Jerusalem and neighbouring towns by a great tempest on January 14th, 1546. 1547 A.D. [64] DIAZ TANCO DE FREXENAL (Vasco). Libro intitulado: Palinodia, de la nephanda y fiera nacion de los Turcos, y de su engafioso arte y cruel modo de guerrear. Y de los imperios reynos y provincias que han subjectado y poseen con inquieta ferocidad. With fine woodcut on title-page, a large woodcut in the text and elaborate woodcut border to some pages, etc. Folio, old vellum. Orense (privately printed by the author), 1547. (Sze Intusrration Opposite anp Prate No. IX). £150 Salva, No. 3310. Palau’s Manual, Vol. III, p. 54. An excessively rare book, of which Salva states that he only knew of his.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31664374_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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