Servetus — the Expurgated Edition — with Contemporary Hand-colour
Servetus — the Expurgated Edition — with Contemporary Hand-colour
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as ‘SERVETUS’, 1541
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Author: PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as ‘SERVETUS’
Publication place: Prostant Lugduni
Publisher: apud Hugonem a Porta
Publication date: 1541.
Physical description: Folio. Large woodcut printer’s device on title-page; double-page woodcut old map of the world, 26 old regional maps, 2 modern maps of the world, 20 new regional maps and one full-page, most with text enclosed in elaborate woodcut borders, probably by Hans Holbein and Urs Graf, text with 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds by Albrecht Dürer (l4 verso), all with magnificent contemporary hand-colour in full, 4 large woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials, colophon n4 present, seventeenth-century limp vellum, recased.Collation: a‑i(6), k‑m(6), n(4), 50 maps, A‑G(6), 2[-]; pp., [1]-149, [3], 50 maps, [76].
Dimensions: 405 by 285mm. (16 by 11.25 inches).
Inventory reference: 14936