"De America qvarta orbis parte ... "; the
                                nomenclature of the New World suggested by Waldseemüller is adopted

The Bernardo Mendel Collection: an exhibit

SCHÖNER, JOHANN. Luculentissima quaedā terrae totius descriptio: cū multis vtilissimis Cosmographiae iniciis ... . [Impressum Noribergae ... Ioannis Stuchssen ... . 1515]

Quarto, 15 unnumbered, 65 numbered leaves. Bound in original wooden boards, partially covered with seventeenth-century blind-stamped pigskin. Full page woodcut coat of arms on verso of title leaf, three woodcuts of globes in text.

Lilly Library call number: G113 .S35 1515 vault

"De America qvarta orbis parte ... "; the nomenclature of the New World suggested by Waldseemüller is adopted

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