Huttich, Johann, and Simon Grynaeus:

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NOVUS ORBIS REGIONUM AC INSULARUM VETERIBUS INCOGNITARUM UNÀ CUM TABULA COSMOGRAPHICA, & ALIQUOT ALIIS CONSIMILIS ARGUMENTI LIBELLIS, QUORUM OMNIUM CATALOGUS, SEQUENTI PATEBIT PAGINA. HIS ACCESSIT ... From the collection of R. David Parsons. Second Hervagius edition of only the second major collection of New World voyages, adding the letter of Maximilian of Transylvania to the Cardinal of Salzburg recounting Magellan's voyages of 1519-22. Novus Orbis was compiled almost entirely by Johann Huttich, though Simon Grynaeus (who contributed the introduction) is often credited. In addition to its importance as an early collection of voyages both to the East and West, this work is celebrated for the frequently lacking, attractive folding world map titled "Typus cosmographicus universalis." The map is particularly remarkable for being one of the first to show the earth spinning on its axis, illustrated by an angel at each pole with a crank to turn the world. At the time of the first edition in 1532, this visual representation of Copernican theory predated by eleven years the publication of his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Shirley, noting the "richness of artistic decoration," attributes this map's cartography to Münster and its border decoration to Holbein. In the Western Hemisphere, South America is labeled "America Terra Nova" and is presented in generally recognizable shape. A landmass to the north, styled as a large island separated from South America by an isthmus, is la

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