Cosmographia Petri Apiani
By: per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicum insigné, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, figurísque nouis illustrata: additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmae Frisii.
Contributors: Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555.
Series: Hispanic culture series -- roll 560, item 2
Publisher: vaeneunt apud Viuatium Gaultherot, via Iacobea: sub intersignio D. Martini
Published: 1553
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Cosmography.; Latin literature, Medieval and modern.; Latin American literature.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Genres: Early accounts to 1600.
Notes: Leaves 31-34 wanting.

Volume tightly bound.

Colophon: Parisiis impressum expensis Viuantii Gaultherot anno Domini 1551.

Signatures: A-H, K-T⁴. Sig. I (1. 31-34) reserved for map of the world.

Sig. F irregularly numbered: E, F², E³, E⁴.

Leaves signed A³-[T⁴] 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, 1. 37-56 in double columns. Initials; marginal notes.

Revolving diagrams on verso of 1. 8 and 11, and on recto of 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: 1. 59-66.

Vsvs annvli astronomici, Gemma Frisio ... autore: 1. 66 (verso)-73.

The map of the world, for which sig. I (1. 31-34) is reserved, is not contained in this copy

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, F², F³, E⁴.

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

Microfilm. Cambridge, Mass., General Microfilm Co., [19--] 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Hispanic culture series, roll 560, item 2)