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Rudimentorum Cosmographicorum Ioan. Honteri Coronensis libri III. cum tabellis Geographicis elegantissimis : De variarum rerum nomenclaturis per classes, liber I

Honterus, Johannes · 1583 · [Apud Froschouerum Iuniorem] · 6 pictures

A 1583 cosmography textbook by Johannes Honterus, a Transylvanian Saxon humanist, printed in Zurich by the Froschauer press for students of geography and the classics. Its pictures are woodcut and engraved maps and diagrams: a labelled globe with winds named in Greek and Latin, a coastal map of Sicily with tiny town vignettes, a double-page map of Iberia, and a planetary diagram of concentric spheres, useful to a designer for cartographic lettering, decorative map borders, and astronomical diagram motifs.

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