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Nouus orbis regionum ac insularum ueteribus incognitarum : unà cum tabula cosmographica, & aliquot alijs consimilis argumenti libellis, quorum omnium catalogus sequenti patebit pagina. His accessit copiosus rerum memorabilium index. Adiecta est huic postremae editioni Nauigatio Caroli Cæsaris auspicio in comitijs Augustanis instituta

unknown, Grynäus, Simon, 1493-1541, Huttichius, Johann, 1480?-1544 · 1537 · Basileae : apud Io. Heruagium · 4 pictures

A 1537 Basel printed collection of voyages and travel accounts, edited by Simon Grynaeus and Johann Huttich, gathering reports of newly found lands and islands unknown to the ancients for a learned Latin-reading audience. Its pictures include a bookplate with a heraldic shield on marbled endpapers, an engraved portrait of Grynaeus, a woodcut of a three-headed herm on a pedestal, and a large oval world map titled Typus Cosmographicus Universalis with sea monsters and ships, offering a designer dense cartographic ornament, decorative cartouches, and early marbled paper textures.

Voyages and travels · Imprint 1537

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