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Cosmographia, siue, De situ orbis   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Mela, Pomponius
Renner, Franz, active 1471-1483, printer
Brooke, Thomas, Sir, 1830-1908, former onwer. MB
Bernard Quaritch (Firm), former owner. MB
Title
Cosmographia, siue, De situ orbis
Publisher
[Venice : Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn]
Description
Title and imprint from ISTC
"This is a very close reprint, in great part letter-for-letter, of Maler and Ratdolt's edition of 1478"--BM 15th cent
Colophon: Impressum est hoc opusculu[m] Venetijs per Franciscum Renner de Hailbrun MCCCCLXXVIII. Laud Deo
Signatures: a-f⁸.
Chancery quarto; printed in black with red headings; 26 lines per page; woodcut initials; printed marginal notes.
Incunabula short title catalogue
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries
Cataloged
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century black goatskin. Spine ruled and stamped in gilt. Armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke. BPL perforation stamp a1 recto, with an early number "702" in ink. Collation inscription signed by E. Talbot of Quaritch on final flyleaf recto. Leaf dimensions: 202 x 142 mm. Purchased Aug. 1921.

Subjects: Geography
Language Latin
Publication date 1478
publication_date QS:P577,+1478-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bplscinc; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
cosmographiasiue00mela
Notes No title page found. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1042461939
Source
Internet Archive identifier: cosmographiasiue00mela
https://archive.org/download/cosmographiasiue00mela/cosmographiasiue00mela.pdf
  • IA contributor: Boston Public Library

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