Kleine Cosmographia, oder Summarische Beschreibung der ganzen Welt
Subtitle: Von den vier Theilen der Erden, Asia, Europa, Africa, und America. Wie auch von den 4. Elementen, was darinnen geschicht, wohrer die Winde kommen, von Erdbiden Finsternissen, Sonn und Mond, von allen Geschöpffen Gottes von den Engeln, Himmel, Gestirn, Planeten, und wie alle Creaturen erschaffen und, wieder ein Ende nehmen
Contributors: Nostitz, Christoph Wentzel, Graf von, 1648-1712
Publisher: Druckts Johann Georg Hertz
Published: 1680
Place of publication: Erfurdt [i.e. Erfurt, Germany]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Geography; Cosmography
Other titles: Kleine Cosmographia.; Summarische Beschreibung der ganzen Welt.
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Attributed to Blasius Vitalis Seywald by Palmer and Alden.

First printed in [Nuremberg?], 1655.

The account of America on p. 53-56 is actually a description of Japan.

Signatures: A-E⁸ (A1 verso blank)

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

Cf. Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 390.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 680/163.

John Carter Brown LIbrary copy imperfect: title page has remnant of red paper wrapper which obscures several words.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary vellum with paper covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Wroth Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Johann Bernhard Herleerstein: ms. autograph on title page; C.W.G.V.N. [identified as Count of Nostitz in book dealer's catalogue]: armorial bookplate on front pastedown.