Rudimenta cosmographica
Publisher: Apud Froschouerum.
Published: 1546
Place of publication: Tiguri
Language: lat
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Cosmography; Geography; Cosmographie; Géographie
Notes: Author's name given in caption title on p.[3]: Rudimentorum cosmographicorum Ioannis Honteri Coronensis liber I.

Originally published under this title, Brasov, 1541.

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

Title vignette: Printer's device.

In verse.

Signatures: a-d⁸ ²a-²d⁴ (a1 verso, d7-d8, ²d3-²d4 blank).

Includes section of woodcuts, consisting of 3 illustrations and 13 maps, all unnumbered (p.[65-92], ²a1-²d2). 12 of these maps cover two pages each and are printed on adjacent versos and rectos (p.[68/69-90/91]).

A variant exists where the 16 illustrations and maps are printed on conjugate leaves, without signatures. The 12 maps which cover 2 pages each are on hinged leaves and are numbered 1-9, 01 [i.e. 10], 11, 21 [i.e. 12].

World map, dated Tiguri, 1546, bears monogram of Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder and includes America [=South America], while North America is designated as "Parias" (p.[68]).

JCB Lib cat., pre-1675, 1:147

BM STC German, 1455-1600, 415

Sabin 32794

Harrisse, H. Americana, 271

Sanz, C. Americana, Ult. ad., 1313-1314

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 546/18

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