Lot 245
Atlases.- Honterus (Johannes) Rudimentorum Cosmographico, 1549.
Hammer Price: £1,800
Description
Atlases.- Honterus (Johannes) Rudimentorum Cosmographico, title with woodcut device, 3 woodcut illustrations, including one of an armillary sphere, Copernicus's Heliocentric model of the planets, and a globe, with 12 double-page and 1 full-page maps, including a reduced version of Waldseemüller's map or Universalis Cosmographia by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder, some occasional ink marginalia and ink inscriptions within the maps, scattered surface dirt and handling creases, the maps with some finger-soiling within margins, endpapers added later, modern half vellum, 8vo, Zurich, apud Froschouerum, 1549.
Description
Atlases.- Honterus (Johannes) Rudimentorum Cosmographico, title with woodcut device, 3 woodcut illustrations, including one of an armillary sphere, Copernicus's Heliocentric model of the planets, and a globe, with 12 double-page and 1 full-page maps, including a reduced version of Waldseemüller's map or Universalis Cosmographia by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder, some occasional ink marginalia and ink inscriptions within the maps, scattered surface dirt and handling creases, the maps with some finger-soiling within margins, endpapers added later, modern half vellum, 8vo, Zurich, apud Froschouerum, 1549.
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