Honter (Johannes, & others). Procli, De sphaera liber I. Cleomedis, De mundo ... Arati Solensis Phaeonomena ... Dionysii Afri, Descriptio orbis habitabilis. Omnia Graece et Latine ita coniuncta ... una cum Ioan. Honteri Coronensis De Cosmographiae rudimentis, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1585, 5 parts in 1 volume, Proclus's work with 2 full-page woodcuts (armillary sphere and a vignette of Proclus teaching) and several woodcut diagrams in text, Honter's work with 12 folding woodcut maps each with additional single-page woodcut map to conjugate leaf verso (all mounted on guards), spotting and browning, most maps with marginal restoration to upper inner corners, repairs to the first 3 sheets (containing 6 maps), later vellum, manuscript spine-title, 8vo (15.4 x 9.8 cm) (Qty: 1) Adams P2135 (under Proclus); Houzeau & Lancaster 767; Sabin 65491; Shirley, World 108 & British Isles 69; VD16 P 4973; not in Cobham-Jeffery. Second Basel edition of this important compendium of treatises on astronomy and cosmography, including Johannes Honter's De Cosmographiae rudimentis, which contains Honter's double-page cordiform world map and maps of Malta, Mallorca, Cyprus, southern Africa, Madeira, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula (including the Persian Gulf), India, Java, Sri Lanka ('Taprobana') and elsewhere. Another copy of this edition was sold in these rooms on 10 April 2019 (lot 30).
Honter (Johannes, & others). Procli, De sphaera liber I. Cleomedis, De mundo ... Arati Solensis Phaeonomena ... Dionysii Afri, Descriptio orbis habitabilis. Omnia Graece et Latine ita coniuncta ... una cum Ioan. Honteri Coronensis De Cosmographiae rudimentis, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1585, 5 parts in 1 volume, Proclus's work with 2 full-page woodcuts (armillary sphere and a vignette of Proclus teaching) and several woodcut diagrams in text, Honter's work with 12 folding woodcut maps each with additional single-page woodcut map to conjugate leaf verso (all mounted on guards), spotting and browning, most maps with marginal restoration to upper inner corners, repairs to the first 3 sheets (containing 6 maps), later vellum, manuscript spine-title, 8vo (15.4 x 9.8 cm) (Qty: 1) Adams P2135 (under Proclus); Houzeau & Lancaster 767; Sabin 65491; Shirley, World 108 & British Isles 69; VD16 P 4973; not in Cobham-Jeffery. Second Basel edition of this important compendium of treatises on astronomy and cosmography, including Johannes Honter's De Cosmographiae rudimentis, which contains Honter's double-page cordiform world map and maps of Malta, Mallorca, Cyprus, southern Africa, Madeira, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula (including the Persian Gulf), India, Java, Sri Lanka ('Taprobana') and elsewhere. Another copy of this edition was sold in these rooms on 10 April 2019 (lot 30).
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