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. 28160 1546 28160*. : ab ipso VADIANI Epitome trivm terrae partivm avthore diligenter recognita & multis in locis aucta accesserunt & Tabulæ regionum ac insularu omnium 12mo. 13 woodcut maps, twelve being double-page size, and one a single page, original fine copy on vellum, £2. 8s 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 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 Astronomie 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, 20s 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 ib. 1553 Cosmographia, per Gemmam Frisium aucta et illustrata, sm. 4to. same woodcuts, vellum, £2. 2s 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. 10s Bâle, Henry Pierre, 1552 An imperfect copy, wanting pp. 153-160, 193-196, 691-698, 759-762, and 1255-1258. The maps include one of the World, and one of North and South America. 28169 MUNSTERI (Seb.) Cosmographia Universalis Lib. VI, sm. stout folio, 14 fine woodcut maps, views, initial letters, figures, etc. wants 1 leaf of Preface, and sigs. LL 2 and 3, in original oak boards, covered with stamped pigskin, £2. 8s Basil., H. Petrus, 1554 The last leaf but one contains a notice in Hebrew on Prester John. The woodcuts, for which Münster's Cosmography is so much prized, are the same in the French and Latin editions above, as in the German edition of 1550, where they first appeared. On page 488 of the Latin edition, and 543 of the French, Gutenberg is declared to have invented printing at Mentz. 28170 1552 MIZALDI (Ant.) de Mundi Sphæra, seu Cosmographia, libri tres, 12mo. diagrams, bound, 78 Lutetiæ, 1552 This poem is dedicated to the learned Lady Margaret of Valois, Duchess of Berry, who afterwards married Emanuel Philibert of Savoy. She is not to be confounded with the other two Margarets of Valois, who were equally accomplished and are better known. 28171 1554 AGNESE (Battista) Fac-simile delle Carte Nautiche dell 'anno 1554, illustrate da T. Fischer, sm. oblong folio, 34 photographic facsimiles, in a portfolio, 15s Venezia, F. Ongania, 1881 L'originale si conserva nella R. Bibl. Marciana di Venezia." 28172 1556 THEVET (A.) COSMOGRAPHIE du Levant, 4to. elegant woodcuts, fine copy in old red morocco, gilt marbled edges, from the Hamilton Palace library, £5. 5s Lion, 1556 28173 GIRAVA (HIERONIMO) LA COSMOGRAPHIA Y GEOGRAPHIA 28174 sm. En la qual se contiene la Descripcion de todo el mundo, y de sus Venetia, por Iordan Zileti, 1570 the same, sm. 4to. with the original map, fine copy in vellum, £21. 1570 The mappemonde of Caspar Vopelius is rarely found with this book, in which it was first published at Milan in 1556. The preliminary leaves were reprinted in 1570 at Venice; otherwise there is no difference between the two editions. The map is similar in projection to that used by Vadianus, but there are differences in detail. It is not exactly as it was drawn by Vopelius ; at least, in a printed notice at the bottom of the map Girava states that he had used Vopelius's work as the basis of his own. 28175 1561 VARRERII (Gasp.) Commentarius de Ophyra Regione, 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. calf, 36s Conimbrica, Jo. Alvarus, 1561 A very acutely reasoned dissertation to disprove the notion that Solomon's Ophir was in America, and to show that it was rather some part of India. Consequently Columbus and the American voyages are frequently referred to. The title of the second part is "Garsias Menesius Eborensis præsul, apud Xistu. iiii. Ponti. Max. hujuscemodi orationem habuit." 28176 1584 ORTELII THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM, opus nunc tertio recognitum et auctum-PARERGON in quo veteris Geographiæ aliquot Tabula-Nomenclator Ptolemaicus-in 1 vol. roy. folio, the frontispiece and one map, slightly defective, maps, and other engravings elegantly COLOURED by a contemporary hand, calf, £4. Antv. 1584 This edition comprises 111 sheets of maps, being more than double the num 28177 ber of those in the first issue of the work in 1570, and twenty-three more than the number of the edition in 1580. The map of China is dated 1584, and the text on the back of it contains two Chinese words in the Chinese character; so that this Atlas is really THE FIRST EUROPEAN BOOK IN WHICH CHINESE CHARACTERS APPEARED, being one year earlier than the work on China published by Gonzalez de Mendoza, at Rome, in 1585, to which the priority has hitherto been attributed. In the text to the map of Valentia, there is a singular statement made, which is wholly altered in the later editions. It is this: "A ger hujus urbis (Valentia) ubique à Mauris colitur Avorumque prosa piam lingua Arabica et religione Mahumetana palam et vulgo profitentur in hunc usque diem; conniventibus Rege et Inquisitione." This startling charge appears only in this edition, for in the later ones it is changed as follows: "Ager hujus urbis à gente e Mauris oriunda et paternum sive avitum sermonem ac fere vitæ morem adhuc retinente colitur." Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum, roy. folio, 24 maps, vellum, 20s Antv. 1584 As the 1584 edition contained more maps than the previous editions, the additional maps were printed separately, for insertion in those editions, The Index of this volume only mentions twenty-three maps (Egypt occupying two), but the present copy contains one extra, viz. Valentia. 28178 1584 APIANI et Gemmæ Frisii Cosmographia, 4to. map of the World, numerous diagrams, with movable pieces, £2. 12s Ant. 1584 the same, 4to. calf, gilt edges, £2. 12s 1584 28179 28180 REISCH (F. G.) Margarita Philosophica, ab Orontio Finæo locupletata, stout sm. 4to. woodcuts, with Apian's map of the World, slightly defective, inserted, hf. bd. £5. 5s Basilea, Seb. Henricpetri, 1583 28181 1587 MAP OF THE WORLD, dedicated to Richard Hakluyt by F. G. S., occupying a small 4to. leaf, facsimile, 10s (Paris, 1587) London, 1883 The finest cartographical work produced before the large map done for Hakluyt in 1598. : 28182 1590 ACOSTA (Ioseph de) Historia Natvral y Moral de LAS INDIAS, en que se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y elementos, metales, plantas, y animales dellas y los ritos, y ceremonias, leyes, y gouierno, y guerras de los Indios, sm. 4to. First Edition IN SPANISH, and also First Edition of the complete work, a very fine, large and perfect copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £12. 12s Sevilla, Juan de Leon, 1590 The preceding edition in Latin consists only of two books: the work was increased to eight in the Spanish translation. 28183 28184 28185 28186 Historia natural y moral de las Indias, en que se tratan las cosas notables delcielo, elementos, metales, plantas y animales de ellas; y los ritos, ceremonias, leyes, gobierno y guerras de los Indios, 2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. calf, 20s Madrid, 1792 Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies, translated into English by E. G., sm. 4to. title mounted russia, gilt edges, £4. 1604 the same, sm. 4to. with the rare original leaf preceding title which bears the signature A but is otherwise blank, very fine copy in morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £8. 1604 Histoire Natvrelle et moralle des Indes, tant Orientalles qu' Occidentalles. . traduite en François par Robert Regnault 28188 Cauxois, sm. 8vo. (12mo.), fine copy in crimson morocco extra, 28187 1590 MYRITII Opusculum Geographicum rarum, totius ejus 28189 1595 MAGINI (J. A.) GEOGRAPHIE Universæ Opus, in quâ habentur Ptolemæi Geographica Enarratio, commentariis illustrata, et Tabulæ, 2 vols. in 1, stout sm. 4to. three maps of the world, and 61 separate maps, old calf, 15s Colonice, 1597 28190 Of the entire number of maps, nearly 40 represent modern Geography. The various plates in which the New World is represented, are drawn from the earlier labours of Mercator. Geografia cioe descrittione universale delle terra, corretta da G. A. Magini, del Latino nell' Italiano tradotta da L. Cernoti, sm. folio, 64 maps by G. Porro, uncut, £3. 16s Padova, 1620-21 28191 1597 WYTFLIET (Cornelii) Descriptionis Ptolemaica Augmentum sive OCCIDENTIS Notitia, sm. folio, Editio Princeps, very fine impressions of the map of the World, and 18 maps of AMERICAN Countries, each occupying two pages, vellum, £10. Lovanii, J. Bogardus, 1597 First edition of the first special Atlas of the New World. The text is a compilement of all then existing information. Contents: Engraved title; Privilege, 1 leaf; Lectori, 1 leaf (A); Text, pp. 1-104 (A2-AA3). At the bottom of the last page are eleven lines of Errata, which are corrected in the later edition of the same year. 28192 WYTFLIET, Descriptionis Ptolemaicæ Augmentum, sm. folio, 19 maps, that of the World being in this copy different from that in the previous edition, hf. green morocco, gilt top, £8. ib. 1597 28193 Engraved title; Dedication, 1 leaf; Lectori, 1 leaf; Epigram and Privilege, 1 leaf; Text, 191 pp.; List of Plates, 1 page. Descriptionis Ptolemaic Augmentum, sm. folio, 19 maps, ruled, old morocco, gilt edges, £7. 10s Lovanii, Ger. Rivius, 1598 The collation is the same as that of the second of the above editions of 1597. The map of the World is the same as in the first edition. |