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Philippi Cluverii Introductionis in universam geographiam tam veterem quam novam libri VI. : Tabulis æneis illustrati. Accessit P. Bertii Breviarium orbis terrarum

Clüver, Philipp, 1580-1622, Bertius, Petrus, 1565-1629. Breviarium totius orbis terrarum · 1672 · Amstelodami, : ex officina Elzeviriana. · 3 pictures

Philipp Clüver's 1672 Latin geography textbook, printed at the Elzevier press in Amsterdam for students of ancient and modern geography, with Petrus Bertius's world summary appended. The three pictures are copperplate maps of Gaul, the Near East and Mesopotamia with a compass rose, drawn with fine hatched coastlines, flowing place names and decorative rhumb lines a designer could borrow for antique map motifs.

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