RAUW (Johannes).

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RAUW (Johannes).
Cosmographia. Das ist Ein schöne Richtige und volkomliche Beschreibung dess Göttlichen Beschöpffs. Frankfurt, Nicolas Bassée, 1597. Large volume in Gothic folio, sowskin cold-stamped on ais, various sets of wheels (one decorated with small portraits in medallions of humanists and another decorated with personified allegories of Hope and Fidelity) forming a frame and delimiting a central panel, metal clasps, spine with five nerves, title in ink at the top, blue edges (Binding at the time). Sabin, no. 67977. First edition of one of the great German cosmographies of the Renaissance, together with that of Sébastien Münster (1544). It is illustrated with several woodcut maps and views of cities in the text, some astronomical figures, and 21 full-page copper-engraved maps depicting mainly Europe, Germany, France, Holland, Flanders, Denmark, Switzerland, Bohemia, etc. One of these maps is a representation of the known world at the time: it shows America, Africa, Japan, the Moluccan Islands and especially part of Australia (called Nova Guinea nuper inventis quae an fit insulae an pars continentis Australis incertune est). A fold-out painting pp. 982-983. This important cosmography is the work of Johannes Rauw (Ravius in Latin) († 1600), a Protestant theologian and cosmographer born in Germany. A copy preserved in its original cold-stamped sowskin binding. A few freckles, first leaves riddled with wormholes. Loss of a few letters on the cover of the Dd3 sheet. Rubbed binding, part of the clasps and fasteners missing, skin torn off at the corners, tail snag.
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