28145 VADIANI (Ioachimi) Epitome trivm Terræ partivm, 12mo. with the large folding map, fine copy in bds. RARE, £3. 3s 28146 Tiguri, Christoph. Froschouer. 1534 The above is the only copy of this octavo edition I have ever seen containing the map. Epitome topographica totivs orbis, original calf, £2. 2s Antverpia, J. Grapheus, 1535 This edition has no maps; it omits the prefatory epistle to Bullinger, and adds at the end (after the chapter on the Isles of the Ocean which contains the reference to America) a treatise by Erasmus on the Peregri nations of SS. Peter and Paul. It is bound up with two tracts by J. Cochlæus and one by Georgius Wicelius. 28147 1535 PTOLEMÆI (Claudii) Geographic Enarrationis libri octo, ex Pirckeymheri tralatione à Michaele Villanovano (SERVETO) recogniti, folio, 50 very large woodcut maps, fine tall copy, bd. £5. Lugduni, Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel, 1535 the same, folio, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Petit, 28148 £8.88 1535 RARE, all the copies that could be obtained having been ordered to be burned by Calvin. It is the most famous edition in the entire series of Ptolemies, in consequence of the paragraph that caused the martyrdom of Servetus. This paragraph is alluded to by Ebert, Brunet, Harrisse, and others, but all of them make the same mistake with regard to its position in the book. It appears on the map of Palestine in the second series, and the fault lay in accusing the "Biblici libri" of "injuria aut jactantia pura;" but, of course, Servetus was not the author of the passage, having merely reprinted it from the editions of 1522 and 1525. Indeed the labours of Servetus were not very heavy; he did but reprint those editions, with a few additions, a few omissions, and a total substitution of text only in the descriptions of France, Spain, Germany, and Italy. Here, Servetus expresses freely his own opinions and prejudices, which differ extremely from those of his prededessor. With regard to Germany, he quotes "producit Hungaria boves, Bavaria sues, Franconia cepas rapas et glycerhisiam, Suevia meretrices, Boemia hereticos, Bavaria iterum fures, Helvetia carnifices bubsequas, Westfalia fallaces, tota denique Germania ac totus septemtrio gulones ct potatores." To the identical account of Columbus which appeared in the editions of 1522 and 1525, Servetus has appended a few remarkable words concerning the absurdity of putting the claims of Americus in precedence to those of the real discoverer. The maps are the same as those in the edition of 1525. 28149 1536 GLAREANI (H.) de Geographia liber unus, ab ipso authore jam tertio recognitus, sm. 4to. diagrams, vellum, 78 6d apud Friburgum Brisgoiae 1536 Thirty-five numbered leaves, including title. See for reference to America the chapter, entitled "de regionibus extra Ptolemaeum." 28150 GLAREANI Geographia Liber unus ab ipso authore jam tertio recognitus, 12mo. title torn, diagrams, bds. 7s 6d Venetiis, 1538 28151 1537 [SACROBOSCO (J. de)] Sphera volgare novamente tradotta con molte notande additioni, sm. 4to. numerous woodcuts, including two small globes with the delineation and name of America, hf. bd. £5. Venetia, Zanetti, 1537 28152 1538 SOLINUS. Polyhistor, huic Pomponii Melae de Situ Orbis libros III. adjunximus, folio, old stamped pigskin, with clasps, £3. 5s Basil, 1538 This edition is not in Harrisse. There are several woodcuts and two maps, in one of which America is designated "Terra Incognita." 28153 SOLINI Polyhistor, Rerum toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus locupletissimus, huic Pomponii Mela de Situ Orbis libros tres adjunximus, with woodcut maps in the text, and 2 separate, on one of which America ("Terra Incognita") appears, Basil. 1543-Gerbelii (Nic.) pro declaratione picturæ suæ sive descriptionis Græcia Sophiani, libri VII, ib. (1550); 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, calf, £4. 4s 1543-50 An interesting volume, as containing the autograph of the celebrated author of the Anatomy of Melancholy—“ Rob. Burton ex æde Cri. Oxon.”— The maps of the Solinus belong properly to the period between the issue of the first Novus Orbis (1532) and the Münster Ptolemy of 1540. 28154 1540 POMPONII MELAE de orbis situ libri tres, accuratissime emendati, una cum commentariis Joachimi Vadiani, adjecta epistola Vadiani ad Rudolphum Agricolam scripta Antipodius, etc.), folio, with the famous and rare heart-shaped World-map of Oronce Finée, exceedingly fine tall clean copy, red morocco super extra, gilt marbled edges, by Petit, £8. 8s Parisiis, Jo. Roigny, 1540 28155 PTOLEMAEI Geographia Universalis Vetus et Nova, complectens Ptolemæi enarrationis libros VIII (cum Appendice Seb. Munsteri), etc. sm. folio, 48 large woodcut maps, vellum, £5. Basil., Henricus Petrus, 1540 The parent edition of a new series of Ptolemies. Münster, the famous cosmographer, edited it, re-designing the maps, according to the lights of fresh discovery, and thenceforward each new edition has followed or improved upon his work. In the first Map-Typus Universalis-the continent of America is divided into three parts: Francisca (Canada); Terra Florida, with Temistitan (Mexico) which is broken off from Florida by the circumference line of the circle, and consequently appears on the extreme right in the Asiatic half of the globe; and America seu insula Brasilii (South America.) Maps 2-28 contain the series of Ptolemy's ancient maps, as designed by Münster. Then follow the twenty maps of the modern world, of which the seventeenth contains the Novus Orbis, that is, North and South America, extending from Labrador to Tierra del Fuego. Naturally great portion of the outline is conjectural, and there are no details. The general representation of the New World is one of the earliest printed maps in which the entire continent appears, with the western outlines of the Pacific coast of S. America in fairly accurate design. 28156 PTOLEMEI Geographia, maps, Basil. 1540-SOLINI Polyhistor, Rerum toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus locupletissimus, huic Pomponii Melæ de Situ Orbis libros tres adjunximus, maps, Basil. 1538; together 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, old calf, £10. 1538-40 The Solinus contains besides a small woodcut map of Italy in the text, two large maps, viz.: Typus Græce; and another, representing Asia, with the North-East of Africa. In the top right-hand corner of this map is a small part of North America (Terra Incognita") separated from Asia by the Pacific. 28157 1543 DIONYSIUS Lybicus Poeta de situ habitabilis Orbis, a Simone Lemnio Poeta Laureato nuper Latinus factus, 12mo. calf, 288 Venetiis, per Bartholomeum cognomento Imperatorem, 1543 A scarce edition with a spherical map on title, having "AMERICA on it. 28158 1544 APPIAN'S smaller Map of the World (as distinguished from his larger maps of 1520 and 1530)-first published in 1544, and issued with all later editions of the Cosmographia see below under 1548 and 1584. 1544 28158*1545 MEDINA (Pietro da) L'ARTE DEL NAVEGAR, in la qual si contengono le regole, dechiarationi, secreti, & auisi, alla bona nauegation necessarii. . . tradotta de lingua Spagnola in volgar Italiano . [da Vicenzo Paletino da Corzula], sm. 4to. woodcuts and diagrams, and full-page map of the New World, fine copy in smooth olive morocco extra, gilt edges, £6. 6s Vinetia, Gioanbatt. Pedrezano, 1555 The Spanish original having been printed in 1545, the map may be taken to represent the results of Spanish discovery in 1540, Pedro de Medina having been the official examiner of Pilots. It is interesting as showing the mouth of the Spirito Santo (the Mississippi) and the lands around the River and Gulf of St. Laurence. In the latter case Newfoundland has not yet become an island, the straits of Belle-isle being still unknown, and only a deep inlet divides it from Labrador. The River Saguenay is shown at its entry into the St. Laurence, which is a remarkable feature in so early a map. 28159 1545 ATLAS, or PORTOLANO, of the whole world as known about the year 1545-48 (perhaps by BATTISTA AGNESE), sm. folio, Manuscript on Vellum, consisting of 28 leaves of Maps executed in colours, heightened with gold, every page surrounded by an arabesque border in gold, red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Petit, £50. (? Venice about 1550) This is a Hydrographic Atlas of the World, of extreme importance to American students, as it is perhaps the only set of maps (besides the celebrated Ribero MS. chart of 1527), showing, by what is absolute proof, that the explorations of Estevam Gomez are depicted from original designs. On the second last map we find two inscriptions which are decisive on the point. On one of the Mauritius islands there are the words "i. discubrio Esteua Comes," and on the American continent, in the region which afterwards became Pennsylvania, there is a similar record, "tera che discobrio Stevan Comes." (This second inscription is repeated in the same locality on the last map.) Now, there is very little known about Estevan Gomes beyond the facts that he started with Magellan as pilot, joined the Spanish mutineers against his leader, and returned to Spain in the ship San Antonio which deserted the Victoria, just as it was about to enfer the famous strait; and that afterwards in 1525 he was sent to explore the coasts north of Florida. In the two inscriptions above quoted, one referring to a place off the east of Africa, and the year 1505 or 1506, the other relating to the region of the United States and the year 1525 or 1526, we find the discoveries of Gomes recorded on a single map, which is probably unique in this respect. We may therefore draw the safe conclusion that Gomes's own charts were in the hands of the chartographer. The date of the latter's work is evident from the nature of the maps; Japan is still the old island of Marco Polo, Yucatan is still an island, and the western coast line of South America is a blank from about the region of Lima to the vicinity of Magellan's Straits. We can have no doubt therefore that the Atlas was compiled about 1545, or between 1545 and 1550. California is delineated as a peninsula with the "Mare Vermiglio" between it and the mainland. Both the American coasts are thickly studded with names, and the eastern outline of North America is given with tolerable accuracy, all the way from Mexico to Labrador, marking the Rio del Spirito Santo (Mississippi) and the Gulf of St. Laurence (which is without a name). "Terra di Bacalaos" is marked, not on Newfoundland, but on Labrador. One of the islands in that gulf is marked "I. de la Fortuna." The names on the coast between the point of Florida and "Tera de Bertoni " are "Aguarda; Tera di Licenciados; Aillon; Rio di S. Zuan; C. di S. Maria; vila di Christoval; vila di S. Antoni; n. verde; rio di bona madre; S. Zuane Batista; Montanas; C. di mucesilas (?); tera che discobrio Stevan Comes; C. diloverta (?).” : Folio 1 an Escutcheon, probably argent with bend gules in the midst of a mass of beautiful arabesque decoration in gold; 2,3 a celestial Globe with the Signs of the Zodiac and a set of tables; 4: a picture of the Signs of the Zodiac and the Elements; 5,6: map of the two Hemispheres, in distinct circles; 7, 8: map of the World on a plane projection; 9, 10: map of the World in five sections; 11, 12: map of Europe; 13, 14: Western half of the Mediterranean with the adjacent countries; 15, 16: Italy and the Mediterranean, with pictures of Venice and Genoa; 17, 18: Spain and the Coast of Barbary; 19, 20: Eastern half of the Mediterranean, and the adjacent countries; 21, 22: the Black Sea and the surrounding countries; 23, 24: Southern Africa and Southern Asia; 25, 26: Africa and South America; 27, 28: New Spain, Central America, Tierra Firme, and the extreme south of South America. The plans of Venice and Genoa, which are both given in small pictures, surmounted by the flags of the two republics, in their places on the map of Italy, lead us to infer that a man connected with both cities was the chartographer. Agnese was such. acces 28160 1546 VADIANI Epitome trivm terrae partivm . . . ab ipso avthore diligenter recognita & multis in locis aucta serunt & Tabulæ regionum ac insularü omnium. woodcut maps, twelve being double-page size, and one a single page, original fine copy on vellum, £2. 8s 28160*. 12mo. 13 Tiguri, apud Frosch, 1548 another copy, 12mo. original hogskin, the date erased from the title-page, £2. 1548 The first large map is a mappemonde reduced from the large map of 1534, and signed "Tiguri HVE MDXLVI." It is heart-shape and differs slightly from that by adding the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola, and changing the words "Terra de Cuba," which in the former appeared on the North American continental shore to " Parias." It also adds the islands of the Indian Ocean, including a large one which may represent "Java Major" or the Philippines, and inserts another island south of Madagascar. 28161 1547 PTOLEMEO. La Geografia. . . con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fatteui da Sabastiano munstero Alamanno, con le tauole non solemente antiche & moderne. . ma altre nuoue aggiunteui di Meser Iacopo Gastaldo . . ridotta in volgare Italiano da M. Pietro Andrea Mattiolo . . sm. 8vo. 60 engraved maps of double-page-size, of which seven relate to America, hf. bd. £5. Venetia, G. B. Pedrezano, 1548 (—at end, 1547) The American maps in this edition have an original value; having been constructed according to the latest results of exploration so far as Gastaldo was able to utilize them. Even his errors have significance, and deserve investigation. The map of South America is the first which contains anything like a correct drawing of the whole coast of that continent, and which gives the names of the cities of Cuzco and Quito, with the full length of the Amazon from its mouth to its sources south of Quito. It is true that the relative positions of the towns are incorrect, and that Quito and the Amazon sources lie one at 26 and the other at 35 degrees S. L., but the fact that they are included with many names of places that had not been given before, give this work a marked position in the Ptolemy series. 28162 GEMMA Phrysius de Principiis Astronomia et Cosmographiæ : deque usu Globi, de Orbis divisione, et insulis, rebusque nuper inventis, etc. Paris. 1549-Robertus, Episcopus Abrincatensis, Antidotum ad postulata de [interim :], Lugd. 1548-Erasmi Roterdami (Des.) Apologia adversus articulos aliquot per monachos quosdam in Hispaniis exhibitos, Basil. 1529; in 1 vol. 12mo. vellum, 208 1529-48 28163 1548 APIANO, Libro dela COSMOGRAPHIA, augmentado por Gemma Frisio, con otros libros del dicho Gemma, agora traduzidos en Romance Castellano, small 4to. folding map with the name AMERICA, and woodcuts, and revolving diagrams, tall copy, hf. bd. £3. Enveres, 1548 28164 1548 the same, sm. 4to. green morocco, with the arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina on sides, £3. 10s 28165 APIANI Cosmographia, per Gemmam Frisium aucta et illustrata, 4to. large mappemonde, with a couple of smaller maps, also comprising America, numerous diagrams, with movable pieces, fine copy in the original stamped hogskin, £5. 5s 28166 28167 Parisiis, Vivant Gualtherot, 1551 Cosmographie de Pierre Appian, nouvellement traduicte en François par Gemma Frisius, de nouveau augmentée, sm. 4to. with the same woodcuts as in the Latin edition, vellum, £4. 4s ib. 1551 Cosmographia, per Gemmam Frisium aucta et illustrata, sm. 4to. same woodcuts, vellum, £2. 2s ib. 1553 28168 1550 MUNSTERE (Sebast.) La Cosmographie Universelle, contenant la situation de toutes les parties du monde, avec leurs proprietez & appartenances, stout sm. folio, 14 woodcut maps, with many fine woodcut views, figures, etc. old calf, £2. 108 Bâle, Henry Pierre, 1552 An imperfect copy, wanting pp. 153-160, 193-196, 691-698, 759-762, and |