(Atlas) - WYTFLIET, Cornelius van.- Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum, sive Occidentalis notitia brevi commentario illustrata […]. Lovanii [ Louvain], Gerardus Rivius, 1598. Small in-f° : [8, engr. title incl.]-191-[1] pp; 19 maps on double pages (slightly browned). Contemporary binding : limp vellum, flat spine with title in pen (slightly soiled but intact). Second edition (princeps : Louvain, J. Bogard, 1597) of this supplement to Ptolemy's (100-168) "Cosmographia" by the secretary of the Council of Brabant, Cornelius van Wytfliet (died 1597). His "Descriptionis" was the first separately published atlas with all the maps entirely devoted to America. Contains an engraved title within an architectural frame with personifications, a world map in 2 hemispheres and 18 particular maps, all mounted, on Chili, Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Florida... # Koeman, Wyt 2; # Philips 3645; # Sabin 105697; # Tooley, Dictionary IV-418; # BT 4903; # this edition not in Adams; # Machiels 155. ¶ Seconde édition de ce complément au Ptolémée par le secrétaire du Conseil de Brabant Corneille van Wytfliet et le premier atlas exclusivement consacré au Nouveau Monde comportant, outre le titre gravé, une mappemonde et 18 cartes sur doubles pages (faiblement bruni). Plein vélin de l'ép. (faiblement défraîchi). Drouotlive.com Read more
(Atlas) - WYTFLIET, Cornelius van.- Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum, sive Occidentalis notitia brevi commentario illustrata […]. Lovanii [ Louvain], Gerardus Rivius, 1598. Small in-f° : [8, engr. title incl.]-191-[1] pp; 19 maps on double pages (slightly browned). Contemporary binding : limp vellum, flat spine with title in pen (slightly soiled but intact). Second edition (princeps : Louvain, J. Bogard, 1597) of this supplement to Ptolemy's (100-168) "Cosmographia" by the secretary of the Council of Brabant, Cornelius van Wytfliet (died 1597). His "Descriptionis" was the first separately published atlas with all the maps entirely devoted to America. Contains an engraved title within an architectural frame with personifications, a world map in 2 hemispheres and 18 particular maps, all mounted, on Chili, Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Florida... # Koeman, Wyt 2; # Philips 3645; # Sabin 105697; # Tooley, Dictionary IV-418; # BT 4903; # this edition not in Adams; # Machiels 155. ¶ Seconde édition de ce complément au Ptolémée par le secrétaire du Conseil de Brabant Corneille van Wytfliet et le premier atlas exclusivement consacré au Nouveau Monde comportant, outre le titre gravé, une mappemonde et 18 cartes sur doubles pages (faiblement bruni). Plein vélin de l'ép. (faiblement défraîchi). Drouotlive.com Read more
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