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Cosmographie, ou Description des quatre parties du monde, contenant la situation, diuision, & estendue de chascune region & prouince d'icelles,

Apian, Peter, 1495-1552, Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555, López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564, Girava, Gerónimo, -1556 · 1581 · [Antwerp] : M.D.LXXXI. En Anuers, chez Iean Bellere, a l'aigle d'or · 44 pictures

A 1581 French cosmography printed at Antwerp by Jean Bellère, compiling Peter Apian, Gemma Frisius, López de Gómara and Girava for readers learning the layout of the world and the heavens. The woodcut pictures are instrument diagrams and celestial spheres, with a designer able to draw on their clean geometric linework, ornamental square frames and dense small-type page layouts.

Cosmography · Geography

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