Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
May 1899
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/52
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    48 APIANUS. COSMOGRAPHIA | Petri Apiani, per gemmam | Frisium .. |. .abo- | mnibus vindicata mendis ac nonnul- | lis quoque locis aucta.. . At foot, under a woodcut globe: PARISIIS. | Veneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot . . |..| 1551. Roy. 8vo. folding map of the world, besides all the diagrams of the 1534 edition; fine copy in bds. Paris, 1551 210 Q The woodcuts and diagrams are improved copies of those in the 1534 edition, and the large map is a faithful copy of the one which appeared at Antwerp in 1548. There are some slight modifications in the text, as for instance in substituting French illus- trations for Flemish or German ones here and there. The Usus Annuli Astronomici is pee at the end. Besides the map, there are 72 leaves in signatures of A—H, K—T, in fours 49 ——-— COSMOGRAPHIA | PETRI APIANI, PER GHMMAM FRISIVM | apud Louantenses Medicum Mathematicum insignem | iam demum..|..|aucta..|.. | Here a woodcut of a globe, and under tt the date M.D.LIII. | Venewnt Antuerpie Gregorio Bontio..| .. Small 4to. with all the woodcut diagrams of the preceding edition, and (in addition) a folding woodcut mup of the world in heartshape Charta Cosmographica which gives the full delineation of the known world and bears the name America; hf. bd. gS sa a @) The signatures are A—H in fours, I a single sheet of two leaves bearing the large map, K—R in fours, and § in three leaves. 50 ——— COSMOGRAPHIA . .. Cotontm Agrippina, Apud Heredes Arnoldi: Birekmanni. M.p.Lxxtv. Small 4to. limp vellum 1574 116 0 With the same diagrams, map, and letterpress as the edition of 1553. The signatures are A—H in fours, I a single sheet of two leaves containing the msp, K—S in fours. 51 ———— 1A cosmoGrRaApHiA ... El Sitio y Descripcion de las Indias y Mido Nueuo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la Cosmographia de Ieronymo Giraua Tarragonez .. (Woodeut of a globe.) M.D.LXXV. | EN ANVERS.. Impresso por Iuan Withagio. . Small 4to. with the same diagrams, woodcuts and map as vn the 1574 edition ; cqlf gult Tofoue 20, 6 The last twelve leaves are occupied with extracts from Gomara and Girava, and ’ an alphabetical table of American ports and towns. Cosmographia, sine Descriptio vniuerst Orbis, Petri Apiani &f Gemme Frist, Mathematicorum insignium ... Anno 1584. Antuerpie, ex Officina loannis Withagij. Small 4to. with the same map and diagrams as in the 1575 edition, and several additional cuts in the additional text ; ‘ih copy in limp vellum 1584 3 O O With signatures *, **, A—I in fours, K a single folded sheet containing the map ane counting as 8 pp: ; ee, AA—ZZ, and Aaa—Mmm in fours; and Nun in six eaves. More than half the book is additional in this edition ; the additions comprising Gemma Frisius de Usu Globi, Radii Astronomici Structura, Peurbachii Tabulz Gnomonice, Gemma de Astrolabo Catholico. o2 53 Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre Mexico y los Hstados- Unidos, large 8vo. numerous portraits and plates; calf Meaico, 1848 010 O 54 Arpousser. Narrative of an explanatory Tour to the North-East of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, by T. Arbousset and F'. Daumas, translated by John Croumbie Brown, 8vo. cloth Cape Town, 1846 O15 0 One of the first important books on the Zulusand their neighbours. There are vocabularies on it. Arcuivo Mrexitcano—see Cortes 55 ARGENSOLA. coNQVISTA DE LAS ISAS MALVCAS . . Escrita por el Licen®: Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola . . Hn Madrid por Alonso Martin, ano M.DO.IX. | Small folio, engraved title; the first two leaves slightly wormed; bd. F609 va bb 0 A book full of romantic interest. It contaitis much matter relating to Sir Francis Drake and to American voyages:
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