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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Title(s):
Mundus imperiorum, siue de mundi imperiis libri quatuor : das ist, Beschreibung aller Keyserthumb vnd Königreich, auch aller fürnembsten Fürstenthumb vnd Herzschafften der ganssen Welt, sampt volkomlicher Erzehlung ihrer Macht, Reichthumb, vnd Vermögens, in 4. Theil abgetheiler ... / Auss Italianischer Sprach ins Teutsch gebracht, durch Johann von Brüssel, die ander Edition sehr gemehret vnd gebessert.
Additional Title(s):

Mvndvs imperiorvm

Mvndvs imperiorvm sive de mvndi imperiis libri qvatvor

Relationi universali. Italian
Published/Created:
[Oberursel] : Gedruck zu Vrsel, durch Cornelium Sutorium, im Iahr MDCII [1602].
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([120] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G1015.B67 M8615 1602+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ.
Notes:
Below statement of responsibility on title page are descriptions of four volumes. Volume 4 description is as follows: Im vierdten Buch sind beschrieben die Fürsten, so in Africa herzschen, der Keyser von Abyssinia, den man gemeiniglich Priester Johann heisset, der König Monomotapa, vnd der Xeriff, König von Fessa vnd Marocco.
Signatures: pi² 2A-2B² ²2B² 2C² 2E-2F² 2G⁶ A-V²
Relief depicted pictorially.
Printer's vignette on title page.
"Translated from pt. 2 of the author's Relazioni universali, first pub. Rome, 1591. The first edition of this translation appeared without the translator's name under title: Theatrum, oder Schawspiegel ..."--Library of Congress.
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 23:233601Z
List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3405
BAC G1015.B67 M8615 1602+: Bound in later quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Autograph: Monasterÿ Mortis S. Georgÿ 1657.
Subject Terms:
Africa -- Atlases.
Atlases -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
World atlases.
Atlases.
Woodcuts.
Engravings.
Contributors:
Sutor, Cornelius, active 1596–1606, printer, publisher.
Brüssel, Johann von, translator.
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