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Booksellers' catalogs, Early works to 1800, Bibliography, Description and travel, GeographyPeople
Philipp Clüver (1580-1622)Times
1723Book Details
Edition Notes
Added title page, engraved: Philippi Cluverii Historisch-geographische Beschreibung der Welt.
Translated extract of: Philippi Cluverii Introductionis in universam geographiam, tam veterem quam novam, libri VI. First published Leiden, 1624. However, this sixth edition also includes much material that is neither represented in the various Latin editions nor in the previous German editions.
German translation first published under the title: Anweisung zu der Geographia. Nuremberg, 1678.
Signatures: pi² )(⁴ A-3E⁸ 3F⁴ 2pi1 a-f⁸ (-f8)
"Geographia generalis seu mathematica, oder, Gründliche Beschreibung der Erd-Kugel, nach ihrer Beschaffenheit insgemein" has special title page and separate paging and signatures.
Includes index.
Preface (p.[8]) includes list of author's works (without dates)
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [4]-[6] at end.
Deals, in part, with America (p.391-392, 642-662, map)
Jantz, H.S. German Baroque lit., 750.
Alden, J. E. European Americana, 723/35.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.
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