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Reproduction. Relief: pictorial. Printing Process: Lithography. Original map in Latin and German, On a separate sheet, accompanying description in German.
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Reproduction. According to Shirley, the responsibility of Schöner for this map has been disproved; it has however been proved to be based on the globe that appeared in Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors; though the author is not known, it is believed that his gores were based on Maximilian of Transylvania's De moluccis insulis (Shirley, map 62 - date of reproduction also drawn from Shirley entry). Printing Process: Lithography. Original Map in Latin. Publisher information on a separate sheet with accompanying description in German.
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Group of early printed leaves from the Burndy Library collection. The leaves are from various provenances and sources. Three leaves are from the Cyril Stanley Smith collection: 1. Joannes Balbus. Catholicon, approximatley 1470. 2. St. Augustine. De Civitate Dei, approximately 1470. 3. Nicolaus de Lyra. Postilla super totam bibliam, approximately 1474-1477. There is also a group of 31 leaves from Schendel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum (commonly known as the Nuremberg chronicles) from both the Latin and the German editions; a single, hand colored leaf in from the German language Liber chronicarum (Blat CCII) with an accompanying note that it was found in a wrapper from Becon Book Shope, 23 So. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, Calif. Anton Koberger printed the Latin edition of the Liber chronicum on 12 July 1493, with the German language edition following on 23 December 1493. Also included is a leaf from Avicenna, 980-1037. Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Latin title: Canon medicinae) translated into Hebrew from Arabic. This leaf is identified as being from the Hebrew edition printed in Naples by Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi, 1491.
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Signatures: A-K⁶ L⁸. Woodcut printer's device with inscription "Christof Froshover su Zurich" on title page. Woodcut medallion portrait of the author at foot of leaf L8r. The names of the birds depicted are given in Latin, Italian, French and German. Woodcut initials. Includes index. Bound in vellum boards; gilt-stamped frames on covers; gilt-stamped spine panels. Printer's device and illustrations are hand-colored.
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Kashnor notes, "Consisting of a fine Birds-Eye View of Pernambuco and adjacent Coasts, with a fleet bombarding Pernambuco, and inset map of the Brazilian Coast, from the Island of Taperica to the Mouth of the Rio Grand." Included in the two German editions (1627, 1628) and one Latin (1634) edition of Theodor de Bry's Historiae Americanae, part 13. Kashnor (mistakenly?) dates as [Frankfort, 1631]. Pernambuco is called Recife today. Vignette: Marine battle. Submap: Brazilian coast line. MS note: 880 (on backing). Table of explanation of battle scene in German. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Done at the behest of, and dedicated to, the Archbishop of Mexico City, Alonso de Montúfar. Colophon on verso of leaf 404: Ad laudem Dei et gloriosissimae matris eius, nec non omnium sanctorum, & ad profectum & vtilitatem fidelium, sub sedis Apostolicae, ac piorum omnium benigna correctione, summariu[m] omniu[m] sacramentorum à reuerendo patre fratre Bartholomaeo à Ledesma pr[a]edicatoriae familiae ac sacrae theologiae magistro aeditum, foeliciter finem habet. Excussum Mexici, apud Antonium de Espinosa Anno Domini 1566. Die .25. me[n]sis Februarij. Numerous foliation errors. Woodcut coat of arms of Archbishop Montúfar and cartouche on title page, woodcut diagrams on leaves 352v and 373v, printer's device in colophon (leaf 404v), ornamented initials. Errata on verso of leaf [4], 1st count, and on leaf [16] at end. In Latin, with some of the prefatory material in Spanish. Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁴ A-2C⁸ 2D⁴ 2E-2Z⁸ 2& ⁸ 2a-2f⁸. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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