Geographia universalis pars prior : das ist: Der allgemeinen Erd-Beschreibung erster Theil, Darinnen die Drey Theil der Welt, Nemlich America; Africa und Asia. (Volume one only)

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12mo. Hardcover. Contemporary brown leather over boards, raised bands, red speckled edges. 14x8x5 cm. Hoffmann, Johann. Nurnberg. 1694. [12]. 566, [40] pages. Engraved fold-out half-title, 52 fold-out maps, 11coats-of-arms on four full page plates. Good. covers worn, moderate toning to paper, old bookseller’s pencil notes to endpapers. German text. First volume only of this seventeenth century atlas with 4 world maps, 15 maps of the Americas, 15 maps of Africa, and 16 maps of Asia. Lacks the volume with the European maps. Includes the map of Mexico showing California as an island. weight: 0.8 lb.