Originally published Leiden, 1624

A different issue, published by P. de Coup. Amsterdam, 1729, exists

Notes by Johann Buno, Johann Friedrich Heckel and Johann Reiske, taken from earlier editions of the present work, given at bottom of pages, in smaller type

Title vignette

Signatures: *-5*⁴ 6*² A-5A⁴ (4S1-3 signed as "Cccc-Cccc3") 5B² (*1 verso, *4 recto, 5B2 verso blank). Leaf *4 folded backwards, forming the first leaf of the gathering and serving as frontispiece (including a portrait of the author)

Page 190 misnumb.: "19"; p. 311 misnumb.: "211"; p. 436 misnumb. "836"

Plates unnumbered; in index of plates, headed "Tabulæ geographicæ." (p. [42-43], 1st count), 51 of the 52 leaves of plates are listed (the one not mentioned is a folded table), and 46 of these are assigned numbers I.-XLVI., with no. XXIX. erroneously given as "XIX." The 47 maps (all folded) are assigned numbers IV.-XLVI., while four of them remain without a number (designated with an asterisk *)

Errata (p. [43], 1st count)

Chapters XI.-XVI. of book VI. (p. 666-688, 1 plate) on America; additionally, America is depicted on world map headed: Typus orbis terrarum which accompanies book I. (p. 50) and on map of Asia in book V. (p. 508)

Includes bibliography of previous editions of this work (p. [7-8], 1st count) and index

Landis, D.C. European Americana

Tiele, P.A. Nederlandsche bib. van land- en volkenkunde

Phillips

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf

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