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Opusculum geographicum rarum, : totius eius negotii rationem, mira industria et breuitate complectens, iam recens ex diuersorum libris ac chartis, summa cura ac diligentia collectum & publicatum,

Myritius, Johannes, approximately 1534-1587, German Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library) RPJCB · 1590 · Ingolstadii [i.e. Ingolstadt, Germany]. : Ex officina typographica Wolfgangi Ederi. · 34 pictures

A 1590 Latin geographical treatise printed at Ingolstadt by Wolfgang Eder, written by Johannes Myritius and aimed at scholars and cosmography readers. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a central putto flanked by scrolls and foliage repeated across headpieces, a strapwork-and-mask frieze, and a foliated initial Q set beside Latin text, offering designers period decorative borders and capitals.

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512 · Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521 · Cosmography · Geography · Indians of the West Indies · Cannibalism · Imprint 1590

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