cosmographia Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/cosmographia/ Rare Maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Maps, Rare Atlases, Rare Books Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:55:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/dcrb-favicon-100x100.png cosmographia Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/cosmographia/ 32 32 238712441 The Book that “sealed the fate of ‘America’ as the name of the New World” https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-book-that-sealed-the-fate-of-america-as-the-name-of-the-new-world-3/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 03:12:38 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-book-that-sealed-the-fate-of-america-as-the-name-of-the-new-world-3/ By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1550.

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Folio (330 by 215mm). Letterpress title-page with woodcut architectural border, 111 woodcut maps, plans, and views, including 63 double-page, illustrated with over 900 vignette woodcuts; contemporary panelled pigskin over bevelled oak boards, roll-tooled border containing small portraits, double central panels composed of different flower roll tools, original brass clasps and catches, manuscript title on a paper label on the spine, in five compartments separated by raised bands, marginal annotations in two hands, including in Hebrew, a few small tears in top and bottom margins, two affecting text, one skilfully repaired, water stains towards the end in the bottom margins.

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Superb facsimile of the Vatican’s Ptolemy Cosmographia of 1472 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/superb-facsimile-of-the-vaticans-ptolemy-cosmographia-of-1472/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 05:13:01 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/superb-facsimile-of-the-vaticans-ptolemy-cosmographia-of-1472/ By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius,

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Folio atlas (620 by 460mm), 135pp., [2] leaves, full colour facsimile reproduction of the Vatican Codex Urb. Lat. 277., full blind tooled calf with gilt centrepiece, brass centre and corner pieces, leather clasps.

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