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Lot 102

HONTER, JOHANNES. 1498-1549.
Enchiridion cosmographiae: continens præcipuarum orbis regionum delineationes, elegantissimis tabulis expressas, solidisq[ue] declarationibus illustratas, carmine heroico, libris tribus. Zurich: Johannes Wolf, 1602.

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HONTER, JOHANNES. 1498-1549.

Enchiridion cosmographiae: continens præcipuarum orbis regionum delineationes, elegantissimis tabulis expressas, solidisq[ue] declarationibus illustratas, carmine heroico, libris tribus. Zurich: Johannes Wolf, 1602.
12mo (152 x 95 mm). A-C8 D4 a-d4 (A1 verso, D4, d3-d4 blank). Illustrated with full-page woodcut armillary sphere, diagram of planetary orbits, and globe, and 13 woodcut maps (12 double-page). Early 20th century red morocco, old manuscript endpapers preserved. Text browned, maps slightly toned, faint old dampstain to upper corner.
Provenance: Anson Phelps Stokes, 1838-1913 (bookplate).

Early pocket atlas by the Transylvanian mapmaker Honter. Originally published in 1530 with only two maps, it was republished with 13 maps in 1546 as Rudimenta Cosmographica and was first published under the present title in Zurich in 1597. The world map is dated "Tiguri" 1596 and bears the monogram of Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder; South America is labeled "America" while North America is labeled "Parias." Shirley 86.

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