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Cosmographia Petri Apiani [microform] / per Gemmam Frisium ... iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, figurisque nouis illustrata: additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gem[m]ae Frisii
Bib ID 1448232
Format MicroformMicroform, BookBook
Author
Apian, Peter, 1495-1552
 
Description Parisiis : vaeneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot, via Iacobea; sub intersignio D. Martini, 1553 
[2], 74 (i.e. 70) numbered leaves : ill., fold. maps, tables, diagrams ; 25x17 cm. 
Series

French books before 1601 ; roll 486, Item 2.

Notes

Colophon: Parisiis impressum expensis Viuantii Gaultherot anno Domini 1551.

Signatures: A-H, K-T 4; sig. I (1.31-34) reserved for map of the world.

Sig F irregularly numbered: E, F2, E3, E4.

Leaves signed A3-[T4] are numbered 1-74.

Title vignette, with legend 'L'inferieure partie de la sphere' is the same as that in French edition of 1551.

Vsvs annvli astronomici. Gemma Frisio ... auctore: 1. 66 (verso)-73.

Printed in italics, 1. 37-56 in double columns. Initials: marginal notes.

Revolving diagrams on verso of 1. 8 and 11, and on recto of 1. 30 and 57. Inscriptions on these diagrams, also on some of the illustrations in the text, are in French.

Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione ... per Gemmam Frisivm: 1. 59-66.

The Latin edition of 1551 published at Paris was reissued in 1553.

This copy is apparently the reissue of 1551, with t.p. and sig. A of the 1553 edition. Another copy in the Library of Congress has t. p. and sig. A of 1551, and colophon of 1553, with sig. F irregularly numbered: F,F2,F3,E4. Cf. Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902, nos. 41 & 44.

The map of the world, for which sig. I (1.31-34) is reserved, is not contained in this copy)

Reproduction Microfilm. Watertown, Mass. : General Microfilm Co., [19--] 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (French books before 1601, roll 486, item 2) 
Subjects Geography, - Early works to 1800.  |  Cosmography - Early works to 1800.
Other authors/contributors Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555

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