Rudimenta cosmographica
Publisher: [Johannes Honter]
Published: 1542
Place of publication: Impressum in inclyta Transylvania Corona
Language: lat
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Cosmography; Geography
Notes: Author's name given in caption title on p.[3]: Rudimentorum cosmographicorum Io. Honteri Coronensisi liber I.

First published under this title, Brasov, 1541.

Originally published under title: Rudimentorum cosmographiae libri duo. Cracow, 1530.

Imprint from colophon; printer's name according to Borsa and Alden.

Woodcut title page.

In verse.

Signatures: a-g⁴ [h]-[l]⁴ (a1 verso, [l]3 verso, [l]4 recto blank)

Includes section of woodcuts, consisting of 3 illustrations and 13 maps, all unnumbered (p.[57-84], [h]1-[l]2). 12 of these maps cover two pages each and are printed on adjacent versos and rectos (p.[60/61-82/83])

World map, dated Coronae, 1542, bears monogram of Johannes Honter and includes America [=South America], while North America is designated as "Parias" (p.[60])

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 542/16.

Borsa, G.  Die Ausgaben der "Cosmographia" von Johannes Honter, 92, 95.