Opusculum geographicum rarum
Subtitle: totius eius negotii rationem, mira industria et breuitate complectens, iam recens ex diuersorum libris ac chartis, summa cura ac diligentia collectum & publicatum
By: per Ioannem Myritium Melitensem, Ordinis Hospitalis sancti Ioannes Hierosolymitani, commendatorem Alemanni monasterii, ac domus Ratisponensis
Publisher: Ex officina typographica Wolfgangi Ederi.
Published: 1590
Place of publication: Ingolstadii [i.e. Ingolstadt, Germany]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Cannibalism; Social life and customs; Indians of the West Indies; Description and travel; Geography; Cosmography
Other titles: Opvscvlvm geographicvm rarvm.
Notes: "De America, Spagnolla, Isabella, & alijs insulis ab Hispanis inuentis": p. 116-124, includes information the islands of the West Indies and habits of the native peoples, such as cannibalism, and a mention of Ferdinand Magellan.

"De meridionali parte Africae ab Alberico Vesputio inuenta, Noua Guinea, Brasilia, Terra ignis, Madagascar, & quibusdam alijs insulis", p. 124-125 includes information on Brazil, the Tierra del Fuego and Amerigo Vespucci.

Colophon reads: Ingolstadii, ex Officina typographica Wolfgangi Ederi. Cum gratia & privilegio Caes. Mai. Anno M. D. LXXXX, with the printer's woodcut seal.

Signatures: A-S⁴ (A1, S4 versos blank)

Errata: p. 136.

Woodcut printer's vignette of  armillary sphere on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes volvelles on p. 7, 9, 38, and 47.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 323.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 590/48.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has no volvelles installed; colophon leaf followed by an additional leaf containing parts intended to be cut out and used for volvelles; map bound between p. 60 and 61 is a double map instead of a folded one as in copy 1.

John Carter Brown Library copies 1 and 2 bound in contemporary full vellum over boards.