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Hardcover. Condition: vg. Seventeenth-century edition of Philipp Cl ver s foundational geographic treatise.Complete with forty-three maps and several diagrams, documenting the global cartographic knowledge of the era.Wolfenb ttel edition of Phili. Small thick quarto. Full modern morocco, vellum label with manuscript titling to s…pine. Covers ruled in blind. Edges sprinkled red (top edge darkened). Occasional marginalia and underlining. Wormholes to engraved title page (affecting lower left area of image). Old paper repair to fore edge of typographic title page (no loss to printed area), occasional repairs to margins. Handcoloring to Hellas, Achaia, and Peloponnesus maps. Large closed tear to Hellas map. Complete with 46 plates per index (and two letterpress plates), including 43 maps. pi2, ):(4, ):():(4, ):():():(4, A-4T4, 4U2, 4X-5A4 (+ 48 plates). [28], 607, [133] pp. Seventeenth-century edition of Philipp Cl ver s foundational geographic treatise.Complete with forty-three maps and several diagrams, documenting the global cartographic knowledge of the era.Wolfenb ttel edition of Philipp Cl ver s highly influential Introductio In Universam Geographiam, a text that fundamentally shaped geographic education in the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1624 shortly after Cl ver s death, the work systematically categorized both historical and contemporary global geography. This specific iteration, printed by Caspar Johann Bismark at the expense of Conrad Buno s widow, features the editorial enhancements of Johannes Buno and further revisions by Johann Friedrich Hekel. It stands as a comprehensive record of the world as understood by European scholars approaching the dawn of the Enlightenment.Philipp Cl ver is widely recognized as the founder of historical geography. His Introductio was designed as an accessible compendium of global geographic knowledge, synthesizing ancient sources such as Ptolemy and Strabo with the latest discoveries of the Age of Exploration. The text proved exceptionally popular, running through dozens of editions across Europe in multiple languages over the following century. The plates in this Wolfenb ttel edition were primarily engraved by Herman Mosting and Martin Hailler. The complex publication history of this edition is evidenced by the dual dating on the title pages, with the letterpress title dated 1686 and the elaborate engraved allegorical frontispiece dated 1687. The inclusion of forty-three folding and full-page maps elevates the work from a mere textual treatise to a robust portable atlas.Cartographic Breadth: California as an Island (or not)The suite of forty-three maps spans the entirety of the known globe, offering separate delineations for both ancient and modern geographic understandings. Notable among these is the twin-hemisphere world map, Typus Orbis Terrarum, which presents California as a peninsula, details the tentative coastlines of Terra Australis Incognita, and evokes interest in the Pacific. As in other editions of Cl ver, the separate map of the Americas is quite out of date and clearly depicts California as a large, detached island, marked: "Nova Albion. I. S. Franc Draco. California." This map, engraved by Herman Mosting, is described by Burden as appearing in an earlier Cl ver edition of 1661, being derived from the Nicolaas Visscher map of circa 1658.The regional maps of Europe are particularly dense, reflecting the focus of Cl ver s own specialized studies on the antiquities of Germania, Italia, and Sicilia. Further afield, in addition to the maps of the Americas, there are maps of the sprawling Empire of China, the East Indies, and Africa.Engraving and IllustrationThe cartography reflects the distinct hands of its engravers, Herman Mosting and Martin Hailler, whose signatures app. Book.
