QUAD, Matthias (1557–1613). Compendium universi complectens geographicarum ennarationum libros sex … in epitomen hanc redacta per Matthiam Quadum sculptorem. Cologne: Wilhelm Lützenkirchen, 1600.
QUAD, Matthias (1557–1613). Compendium universi complectens geographicarum ennarationum libros sex … in epitomen hanc redacta per Matthiam Quadum sculptorem. Cologne: Wilhelm Lützenkirchen, 1600.
First complete edition, rare, the maps finely coloured by a contemporary hand. It had previously appeared in German with five maps only and without the dedication to Lothar von Metternich, Archbishop-Elector of Trier, in the previous year. The number of maps in the Latin edition varies - this copy contains an unusually full complement. The world map (which was not contained in the German edition) follows the oval projection popularised by Ortelius. According to Shirley it is either the same plate as, or a meticulously copied version of, that which appeared in Magini’s edition of Ptolemy published in Venice in 1596 (a Cologne edition of which appeared the following year). The map of America ‘is a reduced version of the one by Giovanni Lorenzo d’Anania of 1582, with just a few mainly typographical differences’ (Burden). Pages 590–665 of the text relate to America. There are also maps of Africa, Asia, and several European countries. Alden 600/71; Burden 97; Sabin 66889; Shirley 203; VD 16 Q1.
Octavo (140 x 90mm). 12 folding engraved maps coloured in a contemporary hand; woodcut printer’s device on title; printer’s device and two initials coloured by a contemporary hand, capitals on title touched in red (text lightly browned, world map and map of Hungary slightly weakly printed in places.) Contemporary (slightly soiled and rubbed, tear in spine with small loss, ties perished). Provenance: ?Leonardus Gez (contemporary inscription ‘Leonardi Gez. . . . Emptus Consta[n]tia Anno 1601’. A Leonardus Gez ‘Ultramontanus’ matriculated at the university of Perugia in 1585).
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QUAD, Matthias (1557–1613). Compendium universi complectens geographicarum ennarationum libros sex … in epitomen hanc redacta per Matthiam Quadum sculptorem. Cologne: Wilhelm Lützenkirchen, 1600.
First complete edition, rare, the maps finely coloured by a contemporary hand. It had previously appeared in German with five maps only and without the dedication to Lothar von Metternich, Archbishop-Elector of Trier, in the previous year. The number of maps in the Latin edition varies - this copy contains an unusually full complement. The world map (which was not contained in the German edition) follows the oval projection popularised by Ortelius. According to Shirley it is either the same plate as, or a meticulously copied version of, that which appeared in Magini’s edition of Ptolemy published in Venice in 1596 (a Cologne edition of which appeared the following year). The map of America ‘is a reduced version of the one by Giovanni Lorenzo d’Anania of 1582, with just a few mainly typographical differences’ (Burden). Pages 590–665 of the text relate to America. There are also maps of Africa, Asia, and several European countries. Alden 600/71; Burden 97; Sabin 66889; Shirley 203; VD 16 Q1.
Octavo (140 x 90mm). 12 folding engraved maps coloured in a contemporary hand; woodcut printer’s device on title; printer’s device and two initials coloured by a contemporary hand, capitals on title touched in red (text lightly browned, world map and map of Hungary slightly weakly printed in places.) Contemporary (slightly soiled and rubbed, tear in spine with small loss, ties perished). Provenance: ?Leonardus Gez (contemporary inscription ‘Leonardi Gez. . . . Emptus Consta[n]tia Anno 1601’. A Leonardus Gez ‘Ultramontanus’ matriculated at the university of Perugia in 1585).
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