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Apianus Petrus
. Cosmographiae introductio,
woodcut
globe on
title, numerous
woodcut diagrams and a map of Greece
(repeated) in text, Sessa's device at the end, light water-staining in
lower margins, some leaves slightly frayed at edges, in old limp
vellum, new endpapers, [Van Ortroy 84, not in Sabin], 8vo (16 by 10.5
cm), Venice, G.A. Nicolini da Sabbio and brothers for Melchiore Sessa,
July 1533.
An
abridgement of Apian's Cosmographicus libre (published at Landshut in
1524).The present edition, the earliest of those printed in Venice, is
essentially the same as that published in Ingolstadt in 1529/32, with
only small changes to the text of De Antoecis on fol.31 and to t-vo
woodcuts on fols.6v and 7r. A brief description of the newly
discovered continent of America is given on fols.22v-23r.
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