Cosmographiæ introductio
Subtitle: cum quibusdam geometriæ ac astronomiæ principijs ad eam rem necessarijs
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- r.5, item 9
Publisher: Per Io. Antonium & Fratres de Sabio, sumptu & requisitione D. Melchioris Sessæ.
Published: 1533
Place of publication: Venetijs
Language: lat
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Cosmography; Geography; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Rudimenta cosmographiæ
Notes: Place of publication and printer from colophon on recto of leaf [32]

This is an abridgment of "Cosmographicus liber" / Petrus Apianus, 1524.

References to America appear on leaves 22 recto-23 recto & 28 verso.

First published Ingolstadt, 1529 [i.e.1531]

Running title: Rudimenta cosmographiæ

Colophon contains device of Melchior Sessa, the printer.

Brown Univ. JCB Library catalogue, 1:107.

Harrisse, H. Americana (Add.), 100.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 533/3.

Ortroy (Apian), 84.