With the First Printed Map to Reflect
Voyages of the Age of Discovery
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World Map/ Early Discovery/ Africa. POMPONIUS MELA
[Venice, 1482]
Pomponii Mellae Cosmographi Geographia:… [Including: DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES, De Situ Orbis. Tr. Priscianus.] .
4to. [7 ½ x 5 ½ inches]
(48) ff., (A-F8), including one full-page woodcut map of the world on verso of a1, first leaf printed in red and black, and 2 large and 7 small woodcut initials in text. Bound in stiff later vellum with author and title gilt on spine. Top & left margins extended with ms. reinstatement of part of outer engraved border, title leaf slightly spotted, final leaf re-margined and mounted with some discoloration. Light toning to edges of text leaves, which are numbered in an early hand; minor waterstaining in lower corners of final quire, not affecting text; very good overall.
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A Magnificently Bound Nuremberg Chronicle
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Nuremberg Chronicle. SCHEDEL, Hartmann.
[Nuremberg, 1493]
Liber cronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. .
folio [17 x 12 inches]
(20) ff. including title and T.O.C., 266 ff., (5) unnumbered ff. and (1) f. blank [the Samartian supplement, quire 55], 267-299 ff., (1) f. with colophon on verso, (1) f. blank. With the Text in 2 columns, 64 lines, in a rotunda type expressly designed for it. 1,809 woodcut illustrations from 645 blocks, of which 31 are double-page; spaces left blank for larger initials. Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards with 8 diamond-shaped brass corner-guards and two brass centerpieces, two brass clasps intact. Some scattered marginal soiling, mostly marginal and minor marginal tears to foot of a handful of leaves (not affecting text); faint waterstain to head of last few quires. Double-page map of Europe hand-colored; world map lightly thumbed and slightly soiled with small marginal tear (1 cm) to foot of both leaves, but otherwise very good. An attractive and genuine example.
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The First General Work with an Account of Columbus
Illustrated with Many City Views
& the Famous Tower of Babel Cut
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Columbus/ City Views/ Biblical History. [BERGOMENSIS] FORESTI, Jacobus Philippus
[Venice, 1503]
Novissime hystoria omniu[m] noviter [editae]…que Supplementum Chronicaru[m] nuncupantur.
Folio [31.5 x 21.5 cm]
(462) ff. including final blank, with woodcut Pallavicini arms in red and black on title, numerous floriated initials, red capital strokes throughout, printed marginalia and timeline in gutter, 4 full-page woodcuts in ornamental borders, and 89 woodcut city views in text. Thoroughly annotated in margins in a contemporary hand. Bound in half calf and marbled paper over boards – somewhat scuffed and bare; paper letterpiece on spine. Title entirely re-margined, with some thumbing and soiling, early ownership inscription at lower margin; next seven leaves re-margined at outer edge, with some waterstaining and repairs at lower gutter. Some repairs to last nine leaves including one index leaf with significant text loss. Diminishing mild waterstaining to upper edge of first dozen quires, and some pale staining to lower gutter of later leaves, else crisp and bright; good.
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A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF THE ATLAS
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Atlas. PTOLEMY, Claudius/GASTALDI, Giacomo, ed.
[Venice, 1548 ]
La Geografia, con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fattevi da Sebastiano Munstero, con le tavole non solamente antiche & moderne solite di sta(m)parsi, ma altre nuovo aggiuntevi di Jacopo Gastaldo, ridotta in volgare Italiano da Pietro Andrea Mattiolo.
8vo. [17.3 x 11 cm]
214 ff., including woodcut title 8 woodcuts in text, 1 ¾ page of an astronomer, (2) ff. [register/colophon and integral blank at DD8], 184 ff., including 60 double-page engraved maps. Bound in contemporary flexible vellum, resewn, with title inked on spine. Early ownership inscriptions on front pastedown (dated 1562), title and f.[2]. Ink highlighting on title, lower corner restored with imprint just cropped; “Tabula Europa IIII” soiled in lower corner; else excellent with map generally wide-margined and with strong impressions.
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One of the Great Atlases of its Age
In a Superb Cardinal’s Binding
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Atlas/ Early Illustration. MUNSTER, Sebastian
[Basel, 1552]
Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur, . . . Autore Sebst. Munstero. Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1552. [Colophon:] Basileae Apud Henrichum Petri, . . . M.D. LII. .
Small folio [12 ¼ x 8 inches]
(12) ff. including title, half-page woodcut portrait of Munster, dedicatory preface and index, 14 double-page atlas maps (28 ff.) including two world maps, 1163 pp. including 34 double-page, 3 folding three-page woodcut maps and city-plans, and c. 970 smaller woodcuts in text, (1) p. printer’s device. Bound in 17th-century calf, spine in seven decorative compartments, covers and spine richly tooled in gold in a diamond pattern of fleur de lis, front and back covers stamped with the ecclesiastical arms of a cardinal. Some wear and expert restoration at extremities of binding. Text ruled in red. Top edge of t-p slightly cropped, bottom remargined; repair to top margin of pp.220-221 affecting headline and partially obscuring first line of text on p. 222. Light toning & foxing, but generally excellent condition.
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