Cosmographia Petri Apiani
By: per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicum insignð̀ư, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, figur©Ưsque nouis illustrata: additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gð̀ưm©Œ Frisii
Contributors: Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555
Publisher: v©Œneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot, via Iacobea: sub intersignio D. Martini
Published: 1553
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 74
Notes: Colophon: Parisiis impressum expensis Viuantii Gaultherot anno Domini 1551.

Signatures: A-H, K-Tþ́. Sig I (1, 31-34) reserved for map of the world.

Sig. F irregularly numbered: E, Fij, Eiij, Eiiij.

Leaves signed Aiii-[Tiiij] are numbered 1-74.

Title vignette, with legend "L'inferieure partie de la sphere" is the same as that in French edition of 1551.

Printed in italics, l. 37-56 in doube columns. Initials; marginal notes.

Revolving diagrams on verso of l. 8 and 11, and on recto of l. 30 and 57. Inscriptions on these diagrams, also on some of the illustrations in the text, are in French.

Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione ... per Gemmam Frisivm: l. 59-66.

Vsvs annvli astronomici, Gemma Frisio ... auctore: l. 66 (verso)-73.

The Latin edition of 1551 published at Paris was reissued in 1553.

This copy is apparently the issue of 1551, with t.-p. and sig. A of the 1553 edition. Another copy in the Library of Congress has t.-p. and sig. A of 1551, and colophon of 1553, with sig. F irregularly numbered: F, Fij, Fiij, Eiiij.

cf. Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. nos. 41 and 44.