Declaratio: et usus typi cosmographici. Mappa mundi
A 1522 cosmography treatise by Peter Apian, printed in Regensburg by Paul Kohl for scholars and mapmakers, explaining the use of a cosmographical instrument. Its title page pairs a woodcut border with a small oval world map labelled Africa and Asia, while the opening page is set in a dense, heavily abbreviated roman type with large decorative initial capitals. A designer could draw on the contrast between the ornamented letterpiece and the plain schematic map, and on the spacing and abbreviation of early printed text.
