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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    nova. ; With 54 double-page woodcut maps. Folio, old calf, gilt. Basel, Henricus Petrus, 1545. £24 Sabin 66487. MHarrisse, Additions, 155. John Carter Brown Library Catalogue, Vol. I, p. 148. This is the third edition of Miinster’s Ptolemy and is of considerable interest as it contains six new maps. Map 54 gives the whole of the American continent. Two others are of American interest, No. 1, Map of the Whole World, and No. 46, Map of the Northern Regions, including part of Greenland. sophia en la qual assi mismo se tracta de Astrulugia y Astro- nomia, y otras sciencias. En estilo nunca visto, nuevamente Gade Title within woodcut border; various small woodcut maps and astronomical illustrations;.text in Gothic and Roman letter. Small 4to, old vellum, with small gilt emblems of Lion and Castle in alternate corners. Seville, Juan de Leon, 1547. (See ILLustraTion, Opposire). | £75 Escudero, Hispalense, No. 480. Palau’s Manual, Vol. UI, p. 279. A rare edition of a rare work. The book is described as a compendium of natural philosophy, and treats of cosmography, astronomy, astrology and physio- logy ; the last section being reminiscent of Aristotle. The entire text consists of a dialogue between Etrusco, who asks the questions, and Vandalio, who supplies the answers. There is a curious woodcut map of the globe which shows part of the east coast of America, and the north of the ‘‘ Austral’’ land, in addition to Europe, Asia and Africa, ;
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