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De orbis situ ac descriptione, ad reuerendiss. D. archiepiscopum Panormitanum, Francisci , monachi ordinis Franciscani, epistola sanè quam luculenta. : In qua Ptolemæi, cæterorumq[ue] superiorum geographorum hallucinatio refellitur, aliáque prætereà de recens inuentis, terris, mari, insulis

Franciscus, Franciscan monk · 1565 · Antuerpiae, : excudebat Ioannes VVithagius. · 1 picture

A 1565 Latin geography treatise by the Franciscan monk Franciscus, printed in Antwerp by Ioannes Withagius and addressed to the archbishop of Palermo, correcting Ptolemy and earlier geographers. The single picture is a black printed ornament, a symmetrical arrangement of scrolls, fleurs-de-lis and interlaced loops on a yellow ground, suited to a designer's border, corner or frame motif.

Geography -- Early works to 1800

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