Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, artium, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in C. Iulii Solini Polyistōra enarrationes
Subtitle: additus eiusdem Camertis index, tum literarum ordine, tum rerum notabiliu[m] copia perco[m]modus studiosis.
Contributors: Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.; Camers, Joannes, 1447-1546.; Early Printing Collection (Library of Congress); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per Ioanne[m] Singreniu[m]; Impensis honesti Lucae Alantse, ciuis, & bibliopolae Viennensis
Published: 1520
Place of publication: Viennae Austriae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: C. Iulii Solini Polyistōra enarrationes; Polyistōra enarrationes; Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, artivm, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in C. Ivlii Solini Polyistōra enarrationes
Notes: Adams S1391
Church, E.D.  Discovery, 45
Rosenwald 645
Sabin 86390
Thacher, II, p. 47 (Americana)
"Polyistōra" in title romanized from the Greek.
The cordiform map was made by Petrus Apianus and, until the discovery of the Waldseemüller map of 1507, was considered the earliest map upon which "America" appears.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: pi⁸, a⁴ b-z⁶, A-E⁶ F⁴, 2a-b⁶ 2c⁴.
Title within historiated woodcut border; text of the Polyhistor surrounded by the Enarrationes.
Includes index.
LC copy has a section of glossy blank leaves bound in at end, hand rubrication, and a stamped sheepskin binding, with metal clasps missing; a pencil rubbing of the front cover laid inside the front cover and ms. ink notations in contemporary hand on front free endpaper; imperfect; lacking final blank leaf.