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<dl><dd>Colophon: Parisiis impressum expensis Viuantii Gaultherot anno Domini 1551</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-H, K-T⁴. Sig I (1, 31-34) reserved for map of the world</dd>
<dd>Sig. F irregularly numbered: E, Fij, Eiij, Eiiij</dd>
<dd>Leaves signed Aiii-[Tiiij] are numbered 1-74</dd>
<dd>Title vignette, with legend "L'inferieure partie de la sphere" is the same as that in French edition of 1551</dd>
<dd>Printed in italics, l. 37-56 in doube columns. Initials; marginal notes</dd>
<dd>Revolving diagrams on verso of l. 8 and 11, and on recto of l. 30 and 57. Inscriptions on these diagrams, also on some of the illustrations in the text, are in French</dd>
<dd>Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione ... per Gemmam Frisivm: l. 59-66</dd>
<dd>Vsvs annvli astronomici, Gemma Frisio ... auctore: l. 66 (verso)-73</dd>
<dd>The Latin edition of 1551 published at Paris was reissued in 1553</dd>
<dd>This copy is apparently the issue of 1551, with t.-p. and sig. A of the 1553 edition. Another copy in the Library of Congress has t.-p. and sig. A of 1551, and colophon of 1553, with sig. F irregularly numbered: F, Fij, Fiij, Eiiij</dd>
<dd>cf. Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. nos. 41 and 44</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Cosmography</div>
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<dl><dd>Apian, Peter, 1495-1552</dd>
<dd>Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555</dd></dl></div>
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