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Rudimenta cosmographica   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Honter, Johannes, 1498-1549
Title
Rudimenta cosmographica
Publisher
Tiguri : apud Froschouerum.
Description
Author's name given in caption title on p.[3]: Rudimentorum cosmographicorum Ioannis Honteri Coronensis liber I
First published under this title, Brasov, 1541
Originally published under title: Rudimentorum cosmographiae libri duo. Cracow, 1530
Title vignette: Printer's device
In verse
Signatures: a-d⁸ ²a-²d⁴ (a1 verso, d7-d8, ²d3-²d4 blank)
Includes section of woodcuts, consisting of 3 illustrations and 13 maps, all unnumbered (p.[65-92], ²a1-²d2). 12 of these maps cover two pages each and are printed on adjacent versos and rectos (p.[68/69-90/91])
A variant exists where the 16 illustrations and maps are printed on conjugate leaves, without signatures. The 12 maps which cover 2 pages each are on hinged leaves and are numbered 1-9, 01 [i.e., 10], 11, 21 [i.e., 12]
World map, dated Tiguri, 1546, bears monogram of Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder and includes America [=South America], while North America is designated as "Parias" (p.[68])
JCB Lib cat., pre-1675
BM STC German, 1455-1600
Sabin
Harrisse, H. Americana
Sanz, C. Americana, Ult. ad.
Alden, J.E. European Americana
Borsa, G. Die Ausgaben der "Cosmographia" von Johannes Honter
John Carter Brown Library copy 1 imperfect: lacks blank leaves d7-d8 and ²d3-²d4
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: lacks text (p.[1-64]). It represents the variant described above, with the first two illustrations on rectos, with their versos and conjugate leaves each blank; the third illustration is printed on a verso, with its recto and conjugate leaf blank. The map of Germany (no.4) has the incorrect designation "Germa" instead of "Germania". The map of the Mediterranean Sea (13th map, unnumb.) is represented by a single leaf only and is bound in between maps 8 and 9. Copy bound, in contemporary pig, with: Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri tres / Pomponius Mela. Basel, 1536

Subjects: Cosmography; Geography
Language Latin
Publication date 1546
publication_date QS:P577,+1546-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: jcbgerman; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana
Accession number
rudimentacosmogr00hont
Notes No copyright, table of contents, or chapters. No pagination.
Authority file  OCLC: 1084525665
Source
Internet Archive identifier: rudimentacosmogr00hont
https://archive.org/download/rudimentacosmogr00hont/rudimentacosmogr00hont.pdf
  • IA contributor: John Carter Brown Library

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