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Peter Heylyn | Cosmographie, 1652

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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July 11, 10:28 AM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Peter Heylyn


Cosmographie in foure Books Contayning the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World. London, for Henry Seile, 1652.


FIRST EDITION, folio (344 x 228 mm) Engraved title-page, letterpress title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials, letterpress table, four double-page maps, contemporary calf with border in blind, occasional small marginal tears, damp staining to fore-edge and head, mostly marginal, four double-page maps cut close, maps of Asia and America slightly shaved at foot, final leaf soiled, rebacked, edges repaired


Peter Heylyn (1599-1662) was a clergyman and lecturer on historical geography. The Cosmographie is an expansion of his earlier work Microcosmos, first published in 1620.


PROVENANCE:

Viscount Gage, armorial bookplate


LITERATURE:

ESTC R5447

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