Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per gemmam Frisium

by Petrus Apianus

$10,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

An attractive and genuine example – with all volvelles present – of this copiously illustrated Paris edition (1553) of one of the most important astronomical and geographic texts of the Renaissance, Petrus Apianus’ Cosmographia. The work’s large, cordiform world map contains the most influential 16th-century representation of the New World..... More

• Binding: Leather

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