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HUTTICH, Johann (ca 1480-1544) and Simon GRYNAEUS (1493-1541). Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum. Basel: Hervagius, 1532.
2o (296 x 205 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, LARGE WOODCUT FOLDING MAP (385 x 470 mm), woodcut illustrations in text. (Light browning and staining, mostly marginal, minor marginal worming at beginning, the map with tiny mended holes and a few short repaired tears.) 16th-century South Bavarian blindstamped polished calf over wooden boards, covers dated 1581, decorated in silver, central panel stamped with the Crucifixion on upper cover and the Annunciation on lower cover, both within a roll-tooled alegorical border depicting Prudentia, Fortitudo, Fides, Caritas, within blind-tooled fillets and silver floral corner designs two brass clasps, with one brass catch present (some light staining, minor wear to spine ends, upper joint starting with firm cords). Provenance: early ink marginalia (to chapters "Terra Sancte" and "Regionibus Orientalibus").
AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF HUTTICH'S GEOGRAPHY WITH THE MÜNSTER/HOLBEIN WORLD MAP
FIRST EDITION of the first general history of travels: "very rare and much searched for" (Borba de Moraes). Compiled by Huttich with a preface by Grynaeus it became the source of voyages of Cadamosto, the three voyages of Columbus, Nino, Pinzon, Vespucci, Cabral, and others. The world map, Typus cosmographicus universalis, is the issue with "Asia" printed in large letters, but "Tropicus Capricorni" printed above the tropical line. Harrisse calls this large type the first issue, while Shirley notes "variations in type and text may occur from one edition to another." The putti turning the earth reflect the Copernican theory for the first time. The map has been variously attributed to Münster, Holbein, and Grynaeus himself; Shirley attributes the cartography to Münster and the border decoration to Holbein, who was working with several Basel publishers at the time. It is of particular interest especially for its "richness of artistic decoration" (Shirley). The map, clearly inspired by the Waldseemüller world map of 1507, is "from the artistic point of view one of the most interesting of the many world maps turned out in the sixteenth century" (Brown). Adams G-1334; Alden & Landis 532/17; BMC/STC German 375; Borba de Moraes I, p. 317; Brown World Encompassed 65; JCB I:101; Sabin 34100; Shirley 67 (world map).
[Bound with:]
WIDUKIND, Monk of Corbie (925-973). De rebus gestis Saxonum... Basel: Hervagius, 1532.
2o. Printer's device on title and last leaf.
FIRST EDITION of this important early history of Saxony, dating from their origins through the tenth century court of Otto the Great, of whom the author was a contemporary. "The work is of great value, because it is often the sole authority for the events mentioned, and because it describes persons truthfully and reliably" (Catholic Encyclopedia XV, p.618). Adams W-215; BMC/STC German p. 921.
2o (296 x 205 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, LARGE WOODCUT FOLDING MAP (385 x 470 mm), woodcut illustrations in text. (Light browning and staining, mostly marginal, minor marginal worming at beginning, the map with tiny mended holes and a few short repaired tears.) 16th-century South Bavarian blindstamped polished calf over wooden boards, covers dated 1581, decorated in silver, central panel stamped with the Crucifixion on upper cover and the Annunciation on lower cover, both within a roll-tooled alegorical border depicting Prudentia, Fortitudo, Fides, Caritas, within blind-tooled fillets and silver floral corner designs two brass clasps, with one brass catch present (some light staining, minor wear to spine ends, upper joint starting with firm cords). Provenance: early ink marginalia (to chapters "Terra Sancte" and "Regionibus Orientalibus").
AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF HUTTICH'S GEOGRAPHY WITH THE MÜNSTER/HOLBEIN WORLD MAP
FIRST EDITION of the first general history of travels: "very rare and much searched for" (Borba de Moraes). Compiled by Huttich with a preface by Grynaeus it became the source of voyages of Cadamosto, the three voyages of Columbus, Nino, Pinzon, Vespucci, Cabral, and others. The world map, Typus cosmographicus universalis, is the issue with "Asia" printed in large letters, but "Tropicus Capricorni" printed above the tropical line. Harrisse calls this large type the first issue, while Shirley notes "variations in type and text may occur from one edition to another." The putti turning the earth reflect the Copernican theory for the first time. The map has been variously attributed to Münster, Holbein, and Grynaeus himself; Shirley attributes the cartography to Münster and the border decoration to Holbein, who was working with several Basel publishers at the time. It is of particular interest especially for its "richness of artistic decoration" (Shirley). The map, clearly inspired by the Waldseemüller world map of 1507, is "from the artistic point of view one of the most interesting of the many world maps turned out in the sixteenth century" (Brown). Adams G-1334; Alden & Landis 532/17; BMC/STC German 375; Borba de Moraes I, p. 317; Brown World Encompassed 65; JCB I:101; Sabin 34100; Shirley 67 (world map).
[Bound with:]
WIDUKIND, Monk of Corbie (925-973). De rebus gestis Saxonum... Basel: Hervagius, 1532.
2o. Printer's device on title and last leaf.
FIRST EDITION of this important early history of Saxony, dating from their origins through the tenth century court of Otto the Great, of whom the author was a contemporary. "The work is of great value, because it is often the sole authority for the events mentioned, and because it describes persons truthfully and reliably" (Catholic Encyclopedia XV, p.618). Adams W-215; BMC/STC German p. 921.