Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium … iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta. Additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmae Frisii.
Antwerp: [colophon:] Excusum Antuerpiae opera Aegidius (Gillis) Coppens van Diest for Gregorius Bontius, 1545. An exceptional and entirely unsophisticated working copy of one of the most influential scientific books of the sixteenth century—the compact manual that taught Europe how to measure and describe the world. In its original limp-vellum binding..... More
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