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Epitome trium terrae partium, Asiae, Africae et Europæ : compendiariam locorum descriptionem continens, præcipue autem quorum in Actis Lucas, passim autem euangelistæ & apostoli meminere. : Cum addito in fine elencho regionum, urbium, amnium, insularum, quorum Nouo Testamento fit mentio, quo expeditius pius lector quæ uelit, inuenire queat.

Vadianus, Joachim, 1484-1551 · 1534 · Tiguri : apud Christophorum Froschouerum · 1 picture

A 1534 Latin geography printed at Zurich by Christoph Froschauer under Joachim Vadianus, a scholarly guide to the lands named in the New Testament for Bible readers. The single picture is a woodcut world map in an oval projection, with a decorative cartouche across the top and the printer's imprint and date along the bottom. A designer could draw on its dense engraved coastlines, sea monsters, and ornamental scrollwork for historical cartography themes.

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