Cosmographiae introductio
Subtitle: cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis : insuper quatuor Americi Vespucij nauigationes. : Vniversalis Cbosmgraphiae [sic] descriptio tam in solido [quam] plano, eis etiam insertis qu[a]e Ptholom[a]eo ignota a nuperis reperta sunt
Contributors: Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512; German Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library); French Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Publisher: [Walter et Nikolaus Lud]
Published: 1507
Place of publication: Vrbs Deodate [Saint Dié, France]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Cosmography; Discovery and exploration; Name
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

"Cosmographiae Introductio" by Martin Waldseemüller, in another issue of this work, reveals his name in the dedication as "Martinus Ilacomilus".

"Quatuos ... nauigationes", p.[41-104], is by Amerigo Vespucci.

Walter and Nikolaus Lud's device forms part of colophon.

Designed to accompany globe and map showing world, the New World being designated America.

Folded leaf of plates has text on verso.

Arents, G. Tobacco: its history, 1.

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 39.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 99354.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:45.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 101018.

European Americana 507/11.

Digital version available on Internet Archive.

Purchase; 1846; 0636.