Cosmographia, sive, Descriptio vniversi orbis
By: auctoribus Petro Apiano, et Gemma Frisio, mathematicorum insignium ; cuius huic editioni additus est de Astrolabo catholico libellus, nunc primum à Martino Euerartho in epitomen contractus ; caetera vide pagina quinta
Publisher: Ex officina Arnoldi Coninx
Published: 1584
Place of publication: Antverpiae
Language: lat
Translated from: spa
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Cosmography; Early works to 1800; Geography; Astronomy; Early accounts to 1600
Other titles: Descriptio vniversi orbis.; Descriptio universi orbis.
Work titles: Cosmographia
Notes: Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2*⁴ A-I⁴ K¹ L-3M⁴ 3N⁶

Colophon: Typis Joan. Withagii.

Dedication by Jean Beller has date 1583.

Signature K (p. 73-81) reserved for map of the world. Nos. 426-429 omitted in pagination; other errors in numbering.

Revolving diagrams on p. 20, 25, 65 and 189. Parts have been supplied.

Another issue of the Antwerp ed. of 1584 by J. Beller, with different t.p. and changes in matter preceding text.

For full description see Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. No. 61.

"Situs ac descriptio Indiarum, seu noui orbis, desumpta ex generali Indiarum historia, hispanico idiomate scripta à D. Francisco Lopez de Gomara. [Versionem latinam curavit I. Bellerus]": p. 160-166.

"Situs et descriptio Indiarum, siue orbis noui, ex Cosmographia D. Hieronymi Girauae Tarraconensis. [Versionem latinam curavit I. Bellerus]": p. 167-187.

"Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione ... per Gemmam Frisium": p. 193-208.

"Vsus annuli astronomici, Gemma Frisio ... auctore": p. 209-222.

"Gemmae Frisij ... De vsu globi, ab eodem editi": p. 223-248.

"Coelestis globi compositio, J.S. [i.e. Joanne Schonero] auctore": p. 249-281.

"Gemmae Frisij ... De radio astronomico [et] geometrico liber ... [cum] Tabula gnomonica Georgij Peurbachij": p. 282-347.

"Fabrica baculi astronomici, vulgo Baculi Iacobi Ioan. Span. auctore": p. 348-349.

"Brevis tractatus de baculo astronomico, ex lib. I. S.M. [i.e. Sebastiani Munsteri] de principiis geometriae": p. 350-353.

"Gemmae Frisij ... De astrolabo catholico liber ...": p. 354-479.

"Carmen panegyricum Cornelij Gemmae, in obitum patris Gemmae Frisij": 1 leaf at end.