Cosmographia Petri Apiani Per Gemmam Frisium Iam Demum Ab Omnibus Vindicata Mendis Ac Nonnullis

by Petrus Apianus Gemma Frisius 1495 1552 Peter Bienewitz 1508 1555 Reinerus Gemma

$18,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

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, strengthened inside with a strip of medieval manuscript on

• Binding: Leather

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