Cosmographie [sic] introductio
Subtitle: cum quibusdam geometri[a]e ac astronomi[a]e principijs ad eam rem necessarijs : insuper quattuor Americi Vespucij nauigationes : uniuersalis cosmographi[a]e descriptio tam in solido [quam] plano, eis etiam insertis qu[a]e Ptholom[a]eo ignota, a nuperis reperta sunt : cum deus astra regat, et terr[a]e climata C[a]esar nec tellus, nec eis sydera maius habent
Contributors: Ringmann, Matthias, 1481 or 2-1510; Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: hoc opus ingeniosus vir Joannes Grüniger
Published: 1509
Place of publication: Pressit apud Argentoracos
Language: lat
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Early maps; Early works to 1800; Discovery and exploration; Name; Geography
Other titles: Cosmographie introductio; Cosmographiae introductio
Notes: Designed to accompany Waldseemüller's globe and wall map of the world, on which the New World is called America; "America" is suggested as the name for the New World on C3 verso.

With verses by Philesius [i.e. Matthias Ringmann] on verso of t.p. and dedication by Martinus Ilacomilus [i.e. Waldseemüller] on p. [3].

Imprint from colophon; colophon reads: Pressit Argentoracos hoc opus ingeniosus vir Joannes Grüniger, anno post natu[m] saluatore[m] supra sesquimillesimu[m] nono. Joanne Adelpho Mulicho Argentinen[sem] castigatore.

Signatures: A-B⁴ C⁶ D⁴ E⁶ F⁸.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 509/3

Sabin 101022

Thacher, II, p. 53 (Americana)