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WYTFLIET, CORNELIS VAN. DIED c.1597. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum, sive Occidentis notitia brevi commentario illustrata. Louvain: Jan Bogaert, 1597.
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WYTFLIET, CORNELIS VAN. DIED c.1597.
Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum, sive Occidentis notitia brevi commentario illustrata. Louvain: Jan Bogaert, 1597.
Folio (283 x 184 mm). Engraved title and 19 engraved folding maps. Late 19th/early 20th century mottled calf, red gilt-lettered spine label. Title, dedication and maps only, without text leaves, title and dedication toned and with fore-edge margin shorter than maps, world map trimmed close to neatline, centerfold reinforced, Atlas figure censored, maps generally clean, but with mild stain in centerfold, dampstain to lower cover.
"In the history of early cartography, the maps in Wytfliet's Augmentum play the same part for the New World as Ptolemy's do for the old hemisphere, and they give us . . . a valuable summary of the early cartography of America " (Nordenskiöld. Facsimile-atlas to the Early History of Cartography).
Second edition, first issue of the first separately published atlas entirely devoted to America. includes the first printed map devoted to California, the first printed map to focus on the northwest coast and Alaska, the first printed map of central Canada, the first map to use Canada in its title, the second map to include Virginia in its title,
Burden The Mapping of North America. [Rickminsworth: 1996] 100-107; Gallup. "The First Separately Published Atlas Entirely Devoted to the Americas: Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Vol.76, No 1; Shirley. The Mapping of the World. [London: 1907.] 207; Skelton, R.A., ed. Wytfliet, Cornelis van. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum. [Amsterdam: 1964.]
Folio (283 x 184 mm). Engraved title and 19 engraved folding maps. Late 19th/early 20th century mottled calf, red gilt-lettered spine label. Title, dedication and maps only, without text leaves, title and dedication toned and with fore-edge margin shorter than maps, world map trimmed close to neatline, centerfold reinforced, Atlas figure censored, maps generally clean, but with mild stain in centerfold, dampstain to lower cover.
"In the history of early cartography, the maps in Wytfliet's Augmentum play the same part for the New World as Ptolemy's do for the old hemisphere, and they give us . . . a valuable summary of the early cartography of America " (Nordenskiöld. Facsimile-atlas to the Early History of Cartography).
Second edition, first issue of the first separately published atlas entirely devoted to America. includes the first printed map devoted to California, the first printed map to focus on the northwest coast and Alaska, the first printed map of central Canada, the first map to use Canada in its title, the second map to include Virginia in its title,
Burden The Mapping of North America. [Rickminsworth: 1996] 100-107; Gallup. "The First Separately Published Atlas Entirely Devoted to the Americas: Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Vol.76, No 1; Shirley. The Mapping of the World. [London: 1907.] 207; Skelton, R.A., ed. Wytfliet, Cornelis van. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum. [Amsterdam: 1964.]