Cosmographia, sive Descriptio universi orbis [...].

4to: [16]-1/72-82/478 [= 473]-[3] pp. (browned, minor spotting, 1st ff. waterstained, corners of last ff. repaired).

17th-c. vellum, flat spine (local stains, ms. annot., mod. flyleaves).

Major geographical and astronomical work (1st 1524) by Apian edited and enlarged by Gemma Frisius, with some additional treatises of Frisius (i.a. the "De locorum describendorum ratione" on using triangulation for correct cartographic calculations, and with some chapters posthumously added by his oldest son Cornelius Gemma). This version of the Cosmographia became one of the most popular books on the subject of the time. Abundantly ill. with woodcuts in the text and some full-page ill. - among which 4 globes with volvelles, a double-page world map "Charta Cosmographica", a large globe on the title-page and historiated or ornamental initials.
Ref. BB I:89:A227. - BT 141. - Van Ortroy 32. - USTC 402027 = Pettegree (NB) 2422. - STC Dutch 12. - Adams A-1285.