Sales catalogue 502: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/60
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 502: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WITH THE FAMOUS CORDIFORM WORLD MAP BY ORONCE FINE. 1532 A.D. [4922] GRYNAEUS. Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum veteribus incognitarum, unacum tabula cosmo- graphica, & aliquot aliis consimilis argumenti libellis. With the famous cordiform folding woodcut map of the World by Oronce Finé (margin slightly repaired). Folio, fine copy, in full blue levant morocco, gilt, g.e., by Sangorski (> Sutcliffe. Paris, Jean Petit, 1532. (Sez Intusrration, Pirate No. IV). £105 Harrisse, No. 173. John Carter Brown Library Catalogue, Vol. I, p. 104. The map is extremely important and was executed in 1531 by Finé for Christian Wechel. It was based on the Basel edition issued a few months earlier, but is of far greater value. Concerning it, Nordenskidld in his Facsimile Atlas states: ‘‘In a geographical point of view this map far surpasses that of the Basel edition, as well in its greater richness of names and topographical details, as in due attention being here paid to the latest geographical discoveries. The islands in the Polar-basin are here copied from Ruysch ; Greenland is drawn as a large island ; North America forms, in accordance with the conception of Columbus, a mere con- tinuation of Asia, which, by a narrow isthmus, is connected with South America. In the South this part of the New World is separated by a narrow strait from a large South Polar Continent: Terra Australis, on which the names Regio Patalis and Brasielie regio are inscribed. No name is placed at the straits of Magellan, but the sea to the West of it is called Mare Magellanicum, which, as far as I know, is the first time that the name of this discoverer occurs on a printed map of unquestioned date.’’ There is no mention of the map in the text. Among the contents of this famous work, are: The three voyages of Columbus, 1492-1498. Voyages of Petrus Alonzo. Voyage of Vincent Pinzon to Brazil in 1499. Epitome of the voyages of Vespucci by Alberi Vespucci. The first, second, and fourth voyages of Amerigo Vespucci. King Manuel’s letter to Pope Leo X concerning the Portuguese discoveries. Accounts of the travels of Varthema and Marco Polo. Peter Martyr’s account of the newly discovered Islands.
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