Fine sammelband of astronomical and geographical works, annotated and brilliantly coloured throughout by a contemporary owner. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin (wanting clasps). Final 14 leaves comprise the atlas "Circuli sphaerae cum V zonis" with half-title woodcut, 2 smaller woodcuts in the text, and 13 woodcut maps (12 double-page, 1 full-page), all in stark contemporary colour. De variarum rerum nomenclaturis per classes, liber I. Rudimentorum cosmographicorum libri III cum tabellis geographicis elegantissimis. With two folding tables, woodcut device on titile-page, an initial and a diagram in the text, all woodcuts in contemp. Quaestiones novae in libellum de sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, in gratiam studiosae iuventutis collectae ab Ariele Bicardo. Illustrated throughout with woodcut diagrams and spheres, 2 with movable parts, nearly all in stark contemporary colour. With woodcut device in contemporary colour on title-page. (lacking 4 leaves: J8, K1, 4-5), 2 blank ff. The Latin translations of the classical texts of Proclus and Cleomedes, which are printed in parallel Greek and Latin, are those of Thomas Linacre and Giorgio Valla. There is a reference to America on page 723 and it appears in the world map and the map of "Cuba" on page 688. Honter's work was extremely popular and reprinted many times, often with classical texts as here. The first edition to include the version of Honter's world map as it appears here, and 23 other maps was published in Basel in 1561. Johann Honter was a German theologian working in Transylvania, his pocket geography "Rudimentorum Cosmographiae" (pages 597 - 737 here) was first published in Kracow in 1530 with only two maps, including a world map which was a simplified and reduced version of Waldseemuller's world map of 1513. Provenance: With the bookplate of the Royal Meteorological Society, Symons Bequest, dated 1900 on the front paste-down.
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19th-century half brown morocco speckled paper boards, gilt (extremities a bit scuffed). With Proculs illustrated with two fine full-page woodcuts, including one of an armillary sphere, and 12 woodcut diagrams in the text and one letterpress table Honter illustrated with one fine double-page woodcut cordiform map of the world "Orbis vniversalis descriptio," (Shirley 108: Honter 4) and 11 fine further double-page and 12 single page maps, and one woodcut diagram in the text.
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General title-page undated, preface dated 1561. 5 parts in one volume, 8vo., (5 5/8 x 3 5/8 inches). Edited and with a preface by Marcus Hopper. De mundo, sive Circularis inspectionis meteorum. Honter's work was extremely popular and reprinted many times, often with classical texts. Johann Honter was a German theologian working in Transylvania, his pocket geography "Rudimentorum Cosmographiae" was first published in Kracow in 1530 with only two maps, including a world map which was a simplified and reduced version of Waldseemuller's world map of 1513. Other maps include France, Germany, eastern Europe, the Slavic countries, Greece, Persia, Asia, northern Africa, and Sicily. The map of Spain is printed on the verso. The last section of Honter's "Rudimenta cosmographica", sometimes issued separately as here, with an intermediary state of his celebrated cordiform world map with South America shown to be separate from North America, which is called "Parsia" here after Columbus, without the engraver's initials and undated, and before the addition of winds in the margins.
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Modern green roan, gilt (extremities worn with minor loss). With a fine woodcuts of the planetary orbits, a globe surrounded by the names of the winds, a double-page cordiform map of the world, ten double-page maps, and one full-page map. Title-page with woodcut vignette of an armillary sphere.