APIANUS PETRUS Cosmographia

Sale 1940 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 3,220

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Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000

APIANUS, PETRUS. Cosmographia. Wood-engraved title, folding world map, numerous illustrations, including 3 with operative volvelles. 4to, late 19th-century cloth, soiled; scattered toning and browning throughout; map detached and with expert restoration on verso closing a tear in the central portion of the image, minor dampstaining in a portion of the text (generally restricted to the margins). Antwerp: Bellerus, 1584

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Map is from the second woodblock cut of the map. The volvelles in this copy are printed on the blank side of contemporary manuscript leaves. North America, shown as a thin strip running East-West on both the map and one of the volvelles, is identified on the map as Baccalearum, after the cod-fishing in the region. See Shirley 51, 82, and 96.<