Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum, siue, Occidentis notitia :
breui commentario illustrata, et hac secunda editione magna sui parte aucta /
Cornelio Wytfliet Louaniensi auctore.

Description

Main Author

Wytfliet, Corneille.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Dvaci (Douai) : Apud Franciscum Fabri bibliopolam iuratum, anno 1603.

Subjects

America > America / Discovery and exploration > America / Discovery and exploration / Early works to 1800.
America > America / Maps > America / Maps / Early works to 1800.
America > America / Early accounts to 1600.
Engravings > Engravings / France > Engravings / France / 16th century.
Maps > Maps / France > Maps / France / 16th century.

Note

Engraved t.p. with architectural frame incorporating arms of Philip III, to whom the work is dedicated. Some maps have the date 1597 in the cartouche. Tail-pieces, decorated initials.
Pages 77 and 185 misnumbered 78 and 158.
Signatures: 3*⁴ A-2A⁴.
Originally published Louvain (Johannes Bogardus), 1597.

Physical Description

[8], 191, [1] p., 19 double-page leaves of plates, tipped onto stubs at centerfold : maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)

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