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Rudimenta cosmographica

Honter, Johannes, 1498-1549 · 1542 · Impressum in inclyta Transylvania Corona. : [Johannes Honter] · 19 pictures

Rudimenta cosmographica is a 1542 cosmography textbook by the Transylvanian humanist Johannes Honter, printed by him in Kronstadt for school students learning geography. Its pictures are small woodcut maps of Africa, Europe, the Mediterranean and Italy, with dense place names, sea monsters and ships, offering designers a model for early map ornament and labelled cartographic linework.

Cosmography · Geography

Internet Archive · John Carter Brown Library · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library