Subject: Title Pages
Period: 1535-1621
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Color: Black & White
This is an interesting lot of title pages from two of the most popular books of the 16th and early 17th century - Ptolemy's Geography and Munster's Cosmography
1) La Seconda Parte della Geografia di Cl. Tolomeo, Magini and Porro, Padua, 1620. (6.3 x 10") Minor soil and pencil marks. (B+)
2) Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra…, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Padua, 1621. (7 x 10.3") Italian text on verso. Damp stains and an old paper restoration with facsimile of the title in upper right corner (C+)
3) La Seconda Parte della Geografia di Cl. Tolomeo, Magini and Porro, Venice, 1598. (6 x 9.8") Paper with a decorative border has been pasted on the sheet flanking the image below the title, apparently for a previous rebinding. There is a small worm track in the left margin and some light soil. (B)
4) Cosmographey…, Sebastian Munster, Basel, circa 1580. 7 x 11.5") German text on verso. Soiled with worn and torn margins. (B)
5) Geographiae Libri Octo Graeco-Latini…, Jodocus Hondius, Amsterdam, 1605. (8.3 x 12.8") Soiled with some ink marks in title. (B)
6) Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo., Gaspar Trechsel, 1535. (6 x 10.8") Latin text on verso. Manuscript notations, soil and a few edge tears (B).
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