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Our Library of Curiosities auction features selections from the collection of John A Davidson Jr., a life long collector of rare books. John was extraordinarily interested in a wide array of subjects from the beginning of publishing through the twentieth century.
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Lot 9

APIAN, Peter (1495-1552). Cosmographicus Liber Petri Apiani Mathematici

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
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APIAN, Peter (1495-1552). Cosmographicus Liber Petri Apiani Mathematici, iam denuo integritati resitutus per Gemmam Phrysium

[Antwerp] : Vaeneunt in pingui Gallina per Arnoldum Birckman, Anno MDXXXIII mense Febr. [1533]. 

Place and date of publication from colophon. "Ioan. Grapheus typis cudebat Antuerpiae, Anno. M.D. XXXIII. mense Febr."

Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici, iam denuo integritati restitutus per Gemmam Phrysium: item eiusdem Gemmae Phrysij Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione & de eorum distantijs inueniendis, nun[quam] ante hac visus.


Includes charts, illustrations, maps.
With, "Cosmographia Petri Apiani Mathematia" in black on front free endpaper.
Spine title in black ink.
With label at spine, 19779.
Cover title in black ink, "Petri Apiani Cosmographia"
With some marginalia added to Fol. XXXV to XLII.

Bound in limp vellum.

H: 8 1/2 W: 6 1/2 in.

Inscribed with ink ...[?] di Regio on frontpaper.

Binding soiled; edges tattered; text block partially detached. Some map components detached.

Front pastedown endpaper partially detached.

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From the Estate of John A. Davidson, Jr. Proceeds to benefit the APL of Lorain County and the Dittrick Museum.