Subject: Title Pages
Period: 1535-1621 
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Color: Black & White
This is an interesting lot of title pages from two of the most popular books of the 16th and early 17th century - Ptolemy's Geography and Munster's Cosmography 
1)  La Seconda Parte della Geografia di Cl. Tolomeo, Magini and Porro, Padua, 1620.  (6.3 x 10")  Minor soil and pencil marks.  (B+) 
2)  Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra…, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Padua, 1621.  (7 x 10.3")  Italian text on verso.  Damp stains and an old paper restoration with facsimile of the title in upper right corner (C+) 
3)  La Seconda Parte della Geografia di Cl. Tolomeo, Magini and Porro, Venice, 1598.  (6 x 9.8")  Paper with a decorative border has been pasted on the sheet flanking the image below the title, apparently for a previous rebinding.  There is a small worm track in the left margin and some light soil. (B) 
4)  Cosmographey…, Sebastian Munster,  Basel, circa 1580.  7 x 11.5")  German text on verso.  Soiled with worn and torn margins.  (B) 
5)  Geographiae Libri Octo Graeco-Latini…, Jodocus Hondius, Amsterdam, 1605.  (8.3 x 12.8")   Soiled with some ink marks in title.  (B) 
6)  Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo., Gaspar Trechsel, 1535.  (6 x 10.8")  Latin text on verso.  Manuscript notations, soil and a few edge tears (B).
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