Accession number
PML 198117
Creator
Welser, Marcus, 1558-1614.
Published
Norimbergæ, : Typis ac sumtibus Wolfgangi Mauritii, & filiorum Johannis Andreæ, Endterorum., Anno MDCLXXXII.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, 2018.
Notes
Fourteen double maps (quires 3P-4E) form the Peutinger Table; in addition there are two double-leaf engraved maps.
"Panegyricus" (quires ²A-²H) printed in red and black.
With preliminary half title leaf: "Marci Velseri Opera in unum collecta."
With engraved frontispiece illustration.
Engraved portrait of the author on leaf (A)1v.
Signatures: ):(⁶ 2):(⁴ (A)-(G)⁴ (H)⁶; *⁴ **⁴ ***⁴ ****⁴ *****⁴; A-O⁶ P⁴ Q-2N⁶ 2O⁴ 2P-2T⁶ 2U⁴ 2X-3K⁶ 3L⁸ 3M-3N⁶ 3O⁸ 3P-4E² 4F⁶ 4G-4U⁴ 4X⁶ a-b⁴ c⁶ (c6 blank) ²A-²F⁴ ²G² ²H⁶.
With engraved and woodcut head and tail-pieces and initials.
Includes index.
Marginal notes.
Includes printed map of Venezuela, between pages 26-27.
"Panegyricus" (quires ²A-²H) printed in red and black.
With preliminary half title leaf: "Marci Velseri Opera in unum collecta."
With engraved frontispiece illustration.
Engraved portrait of the author on leaf (A)1v.
Signatures: ):(⁶ 2):(⁴ (A)-(G)⁴ (H)⁶; *⁴ **⁴ ***⁴ ****⁴ *****⁴; A-O⁶ P⁴ Q-2N⁶ 2O⁴ 2P-2T⁶ 2U⁴ 2X-3K⁶ 3L⁸ 3M-3N⁶ 3O⁸ 3P-4E² 4F⁶ 4G-4U⁴ 4X⁶ a-b⁴ c⁶ (c6 blank) ²A-²F⁴ ²G² ²H⁶.
With engraved and woodcut head and tail-pieces and initials.
Includes index.
Marginal notes.
Includes printed map of Venezuela, between pages 26-27.
Description
[20], 68, [40], 908, [92] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps, port. ; 31.5 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
Waldsassen (Bavaria), Cistercian convent, inscriptions: Monasterij Waldsassensis; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Rodolphe Chamonal on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, Nov. 2018.
Binding
17th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. 2 clasps. Fore-edge tabs.
Classification
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