General editor, Benedictus Arias Montanus. and The second of the great polyglots; known as the Antwerp, or Plantin's polyglot, otherwise the Royal polyglot.
Anno a Christi natiuitate 1525. Tertio Kal'. Apriles.
Call Number:
1976 +325
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Each map is printed across two leaves of plates. Maps 1 to 49 are numbered and have text on recto of initial leaf; final map is unnumbered, has no text on recto of initial leaf., Imprint information from colophon (leaf Q8 recto)., Index ([68] p., third group) bound at end, after maps., Signatures: A-M⁶ N⁴ 0-P⁶ Q⁸ a-e⁶ f⁴., and Variant order of binding: index precedes maps. Autograph of Giovanni Battista Francino.
Publisher:
Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat,
Subject (Name):
Francino, Giovanni Battista,--1631-1698--Autograph. and Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
"Charles Leeson Prince(?) 1878" written on end paper., 1636 issue with t.p. 1638?, BEIN GfL29 b636a: Without errata on verso of p. 117 at end and without index. Madan 832(?). Title-page is not inserted as Madan states it is in both the 1636 and 1638 issues. In this copy it is conjugate to leaf 4. The folded table, blank on verso, follows the 4th preliminary leaf., Engraved t.p., signed: Will: Marshall. sculpsit. 1638. At foot of t.p.: editio Postrema. Head and tail pieces., Greek and Latin on opposite pages., and Signatures: 4, A-N8, O1, p2-8, Y4.
