Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
N.d.
Primary Source Reference:
Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 7 (Geography and Astronomy)
Notes:
Not listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue; this work was probably Honter's De Cosmographiae rudimentis, which is the last part, or pp. 845-940, of the work Procli de Sphaera . . . Cleomedis de Mundo (Basil: Heinrich Petri, 1561). Honter's Cosmography is accompanied by 24 woodcut maps (partly double pages) the first of which represents the world on the heart projection, the last the Island of Cuba.
Valued at 2d in Du Simitière's estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 7
Title Information:
De Cosmographiæ rudimentis, & omnium propèrerum nomenclatura
Imprint Information:
Basil: Heinrich Petri, 1561
