80/2329 [Astronomy]. Apianus, P. Cosmographia. Antw., G. Bontius, 1553, (2),64,(2) lvs., woodcut globe on title-p., 1 fold. worldmap, 4 volvelle plates, num. ills., rebound in 20th cent. overlapping vellum w. title stamped in black on spine, sm. 4to.

- A fine and complete copy, with the following minor defects: title-p. reattached; title-p. and verso of final leaf sl. dustsoiled; occas. sl./ trifle fingersoiled in blank margin; a few leaves w. unobtrusibve sm. restoration to lower outer corners.

= Van Ortroy (Apian) no.42 (listing 4 volvelle plates, placed on the leaves as in our copy); Van Ortroy (Gemma Frisius) no.31; Alden, European Americana 553/4; Bibl. Belgica A224. Shirley no.96. One of the most important and popular 16th cent. works on cosmography, this treatise deals i.a. with triangulation, the climatic zones in which the earth may be divided, and with methods of determining latitude and longitude. The worldmap (as used in the editions of 1544 and after) is one of the earliest maps to indicate America by that name. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.