Cosmographiae introductio
Subtitle: cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis. Insuper Quattuor Americi Vespucij nauigationes. : Vniuersalis cosmographiæ descriptio tam in solido [quam] plano, eis etiam insertis quæ Ptholom[a]eo ignota a nuperis reperta sunt
Contributors: Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
Publisher: [Walter et Nikolaus Lud]
Published: 1507
Place of publication: Vrbs Deodate [St. Dié ]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Cosmography; Name; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Designed to accompany globe and map showing world, the New World being designated America.

Originally published earlier in the same year.

Publication statement from colophon; W. and N. Lud's device part of colophon.

In some issues of this work, the author reveals his name in the dedication as "Martinus Ilacomilus"

There are several issues of this work varying in the 1st line of the title.

Signatures: A-B⁶ C-D⁴ ²A⁸ b-c⁴ d⁸ e-f⁴ (f4 verso blank)

Folded leaf of plates has text on verso.

Includes index.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:45.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana 507/12.

John Carter Brown Library copy is the issue in which the 1st line of the title reads "Cosmographiae"; lacks p. [39-40] ; pen-and-ink facsimile of diagram on p. [39] has been inserted ; text on p. [40] available from other editions.