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Folio (12 x 7 4/8 inches). Title-page printed in red and black with wood-engraved printer's device. Five fine folding engraved maps by Matthias Quad (short tears to lower margins of some pages, affecting the text on B3, and H2 & O2-3, minor worming to gutter on pages149-220). Contemporary German blind-panelled pigskin over bevelled boards, brass clasps and catches (some minor worming at the head of the spine). Provenance: Near contemporary German ownership inscription at the foot of the title-page dated 1645; early marginal annotations and some underlining of text. Early German edition of Botero's celebrated "Le relazioni universali", his description of the kingdoms of the world, and the first edition to be issued with five fine copper-engraved maps by the German cartographer Matthias Quad. The five maps are Europe, Africa, "Typus orbis terrarum," Asia, "Novi orbis pars borealis, America sclicet, complectens Floridam, Baccalon, Canadam, .". The World map, "Typus Orbis Terrarum, ad Imitationem Universalis Gerhardi Mercatoris," was first issued in Cologne in 1596, and is "reduced from Mercator's planispherical map of 1569, with the addition of a figure of Christ in an oval frame at the top. South America still has its uncorrected bulge" (Shirley). The fine map of North America, "Novi Orbis Pars Borealis.," was first issued in 1600, "Quad employed Johannes Bussemacher to engrave this attractive map of North America which is largely a reduced version of Cornelius de Jode's AMERICAE PARS BOREALIS. De Jode was the first to make use of both John White's and Jacques le Moyne's east coast cartography, though he inaccurately placed it. Quad here continues the mistake of placing the nomenclature of Virginia too far north. A long narrow waterway to the north encourages the belief in a North-West Passage. A curious 'second' peninsula is shown to the west of Florida which could be an early representation of the Mississippi delta" (Burden). First published in 1591 "Le relazioni universali" was quickly translated into other European languages, here by Aegidius Albertinus, one of the most prolific, important, and successful writers of the German Counter Reformation. Alden 611.6; Borba de Moraes (1983), p. 113; Meurer, p.67; Sabin 6808. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. N° de ref. del artículo 000140

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