ATLAS. - RAUW (Johannes)

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ATLAS. - RAUW (Johannes)
Cosmographia. Das ist Ein schöne Richtige und volkomliche Beschreibung des Göttlichen Beschöpffs. Frankfurt, Nicolas Bassée, 1597. High volume in Gothic folio, cold stamped sow skin on ease, various sets of wheels (one decorated with small portraits in humanist medallions and another decorated with allegories personified of Hope and Fidelity) forming a frame and delimiting a central panel, metal clasps, back with five nerves, title in ink at the top, blue edges (Binding of the time). Sabin, n°67977. Original edition of one of the great German cosmographies of the Renaissance, with that of Sébastien Münster (1544). It is illustrated with several plans and views of cities engraved on wood in the text, some astronomical figures, and 21 full-page copper engraved maps showing mainly Europe, Germany, France, Holland, Flanders, Denmark, Switzerland, Bohemia, etc. One of these maps is a representation of the world known at the time: America, Africa, Japan, the Moluccas and especially part of Australia (called Nova Guinea nuper inventis quae an fit insulae an pars continentis Australis incertune est). A leaflet table pp. 982-983. This important cosmography is the work of Johannes Rauw (Ravius in Latin) († 1600), a Protestant theologian and cosmographer born in Germany. Copy preserved in its original cold stamped sow skin binding. A few freckles, first leaves sifted with wormholes. Loss of a few letters on the headlines of the Dd3 sheet. Rubbed binding, some of the clasps and fasteners missing, skin torn off at the corners, tail snag.
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