Enchiridion cosmographiae
Subtitle: continens præcipuarum orbis regionum delineationes, elegantissimis tabulis expressas, solidisq[ue]; declarationibus illustratas, carmine heroico, libris tribus
By: Auctore Iohanne Hontero Coronense. Accessit eiusdem liber de variarum rerum nomenclaturis, in classes tributus
Publisher: apud Iohan. VVolphium
Published: 1702
Place of publication: Tiguri
Language: lat
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Cosmography; Geography
Work titles: Rudimenta cosmographica
Notes: First published under this title, Zurich, 1597.

Originally published under title: Rudimentorum cosmographiae libri duo. Cracow, 1530.

Title vignette, with inscription: Christus pacificator noster. Esa. II.

In verse.

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁴ a-d⁴ (A1 verso, D4, d3-d4 blank)

Includes section of woodcuts, consisting of 3 illustrations and 13 maps, all unnumbered (p.[57-84], a1-d2). 12 of these maps cover two pages and are printed on adjacent versos and rectos (p.[60/61-82/83])

World map, dated Tiguri, 1596, bears monogram of Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder and includes America [=South America], while North America is designated as "Parias" (p.[60])

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 602/47.

Borsa, G.  Die Ausgaben der "Cosmographia" von Johannes Honter, 96.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.