Petri Apiani Cosmographia, per Gemmam Phrysium, apud Louanienses Medicum ac Mathematicum insignem, restituta.

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Petri Apiani Cosmographia, per Gemmam Phrysium, apud Louanienses Medicum ac Mathematicum insignem, restituta.

Atlas with a total of 62 leaves including 35 pages of various woodcuts of large globes (incl. title page) and astronomical armillary spheres, 4 of which with movable parts. IA 106.429; Adams A 1278; Nijhoff-Kronenberg 125; Sabin 1744; Alden-L. 539/1; Church 77; van Ortroy, Apian 30 & Gemma Frisius 11. - Early edition of Apian's major work, edited by Gemma Frisius. Also contains two important contributions of Gemma Frisius' own, his "Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione" (Bll. 47v-53), in which he was the first to describe the principle of triangulation for land surveying, and his "Usus annuli astronomici" (Bll. 54-60), published here for the first time. At the same time an important Amerikanum with description of the new continent on fol. XXXI recto. Four of the large text woodcuts with movable spheres, pointers etc., including a world map in polar projection (Shirley 51). The woodcut on leaf 11v with anchor recto, movable parts according to Church and other comparative copies, however, not published. - Stain on leaf XXVIII, number on leaf LX, leaf LXI wormhole, last page wormhole and corner below replaced. partly Antwerp, Ä. Coppenius for Arnold Berckmann, 1540. Early edition.

c. 1549

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Apian