Philippi Cluverii Introductio in Universam Geographiam tam veterem qua

CLUVERIUS (Philip).

Philippi Cluverii Introductio in Universam Geographiam tam veterem quam novam tabulis geographicis XLVI. Ac notis olim ornata ....

First edition of this version; quarto (231 x 173 mm); [22], 1-368, 367-565pp., letterpress title-page printed in red and black; forty-six plates, including forty-three maps, two tables, lacking the engraved frontispiece; manuscript list of the maps on the front and rear end-papers. Page 391 and facing map (Poland) damaged, with paper loss in the gutter. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, rebacked, gilt titling and red morocco label to spine. Boards worn and marked, spine rubbed. Amsterdam : Johannes Wolters, 1697.

£2,500.00

Philipp Cluver (1580-1622) was born in Danzig, but spent much of his career at the University of Leiden. His Universam Geographiam became a standard geographical text, and was much reprinted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many editions with a set of maps.

This edition has a new series of maps, engraved on a substantially larger format: quarto rather than octavo; they are also more accomplished engravings than found in some rival editions. Despite Shirley’s assertion, this is the First Edition of Wolters’ edition of Cluverius.

Reference: Shirley, T.CLUV-8a.

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Philippi Cluverii Introductio in Universam Geographiam tam veterem quam novam tabulis geographicis XLVI. Ac notis olim ornata ....

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